How to Use expose in a Sentence

expose

1 of 2 verb
Definition of exposenext
Synonyms for exposenext
  • They threatened to expose him.
  • The shingles had fallen off, exposing the wood underneath.
  • Undercover investigators exposed the scam.
  • The balloons were then popped, one by one, to fully expose the 26-year-old artist.
    — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2024
  • For the first time, she had been exposed to the mentality her cause was up against.
    — Detroit Free Press, 1 Jan. 2024
  • For instance, the back of her dress had a lace-up detail that exposed her backside.
    — Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 15 Mar. 2024
  • She feels exposed by the Northwest school’s large windows.
    — Lauren Lumpkin, Washington Post, 31 May 2023
  • If anything was left open and exposed to wildfire smoke, throw that out as well.
    — Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 12 July 2023
  • Whereas some players at the camp knew how to play chess, Stroud never had been exposed to it.
    — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2023
  • And going down South exposed me to a different way things were.
    — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2023
  • The absolute best way to take care of your 14-karat gold is to take it off when exposed you're exposed to water.
    — Andrea Navarro, Glamour, 24 Nov. 2023
  • What happens to plants when they’re exposed to extreme heat?
    — Abby Wilson, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Sep. 2023
  • The guard thought they were too exposed and didn’t want their location shared more widely, Singh said.
    — Andrea Salcedo, Washington Post, 17 May 2023
  • But their parents haven’t been exposed to hockey at all.
    — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2024
  • The 1792 home was restored in a way that stripped it down to its essence: A vaulted ceiling in the main, open living area exposes wood beams.
    — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Then a gardener cuts those off, exposing you to full sun — in the middle of summer.
    — Greg Alder, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Jan. 2024
  • In 2004, Janet Jackson exposed her breast during the Super Bowl, and look what happened.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 19 Dec. 2023
  • The severity of oxidative stress depends on the type of PM2.5 a person is exposed to.
    — Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2023
  • About 3 of 100 people vaccinated with two doses will fall ill if exposed to the virus, the CDC says.
    — Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 22 Feb. 2024
  • However, the authors did note that in Greenland, frozen waste could be exposed by 2100.
    — Anita Hofschneider, WIRED, 2 Mar. 2024
  • Sometimes, if exposed before bud-break or to most of a plant’s root zone, all foliage will show damage.
    — Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 19 June 2023
  • That’s left a painful dent in the portfolios of investors exposed to low-carbon stocks, such as Impax.
    — Natasha White, Fortune, 14 Jan. 2024
  • So Napa Valley Cabernets, for instance, will have more quercetin since the grapes are grown with clusters exposed to the sun.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 20 Nov. 2023
  • As discussed above, potatoes exposed to too much light turn green and bitter.
    — Tamara Gane, Southern Living, 16 Dec. 2023
  • Waters pushed up his sweaty T-shirt to expose his chest and began briskly pushing on his breastbone.
    — Helen Ouyang, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2024
  • With Loki’s help, the two end up exposing the TVA as a facade and travel to the end of time to discover its creator.
    — Herb Scribner, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2023
  • One of the two residents infected is a woman in her 70s who was exposed to the virus in another part of the country.
    — Maria Elena Little Endara, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Aug. 2023
  • And, in one case, a vault is cracked so badly that the casket underneath is exposed to the harsh rain and sun and moisture of South Florida.
    — Gerard Albert, NPR, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Lewis, of the WHO, says this could be because many adults have been exposed and acquired some immunity.
    — Gabrielle Emanuel, NPR, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The idea of exposing your clutter to the world is downright terrifying.
    — Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 3 June 2023
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exposé

2 of 2 noun
  • The show aired an exposé on the candidate's financial indiscretions.
  • Why was this the time to write an expose about the prison system and death row?
    — Keri Blakinger, Houston Chronicle, 3 May 2018
  • If what the Times says is true, this is the sort of expose that is going to cause an uproar.
    — Chris Mooney, Discover Magazine, 27 Feb. 2011
  • The expose revealed the myth of Medvedev as an honest leader.
    — Regina Smyth, The Conversation, 21 Aug. 2020
  • Part 2 of the expose reveals just how close Jones is with past and present members of the extremist group the Proud Boys.
    — Will Carless, USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2023
  • This scoop was very, very closely held within the NYT — just like the paper's 2018 Trump tax expose was.
    — Brian Stelter, CNN, 28 Sep. 2020
  • Clarke launched the defamation claim last spring, on the one year anniversary of the expose being published.
    — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 27 Mar. 2023
  • All of this later came to light in Ronan Farrow’s 2017 expose of Black Cube.
    — Paul Starobin, Wired, 17 July 2021
  • In the aftermath of the expose, many have voiced their support for Judd and other alleged victims.
    — Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2017
  • Collins-Rector stashed much of his assets in tax havens, as outlined in the Post’s expose on the Pandora Papers.
    — cleveland, 5 Oct. 2021
  • Their piece was followed a few days later by Ronan Farrow’s expose in the New Yorker.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 17 Nov. 2022
  • The Air Force, for one, will probably be secretly relieved by this less-than-lethal expose.
    — Duane Byrge, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Apr. 2018
  • In this chilling expose, journalists crack open secret killings and Kremlin collusion that have kept the business of dirty wars above the law.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 21 Mar. 2023
  • That story was followed by another expose in The New Yorker.
    — Bloomberg.com, 18 Oct. 2017
  • Richmond gets their final chance to win promotion as Ted deals with the fallout of Trent Crimm’s painfully honest expose.
    — Rodney Ho, ajc, 3 Oct. 2021
  • The Intercept published it own expose of the first raid based on local eyewitnesses.
    — Alex Emmons, The Intercept, 8 May 2017
  • Bob Woodward's expose of Trump's lies to Americans about the coronavirus grabbed the headlines earlier this month.
    — Stephen Collinson With Caitlin Hu, CNN, 17 Sep. 2020
  • Taken together, all of the charges filed Thursday expose Dixon, who was off duty at the time of the incidents, to a possible sentence topping 200 years.
    — Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2021
  • In an interview with SPIN about the book, the guitarist forwent the salacious expose for a psychological study on himself.
    — Spin Staff, SPIN, 18 Jan. 2023
  • The Journal published an expose on Steve Wynn in January 2018 that ultimately led to his ouster from the company.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Nov. 2019
  • A bit of advice is sometimes in order, such as the time an angry wife wanted an aerial expose on her cheating husband flown above his office.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2022
  • It was hailed as a shocking expose of societal inequity in California and a gripping read.
    — Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2022
  • The story follows a journalist who decides to write an expose about antisemitism by pretending to be a Jew himself.
    — Jonathan Greenblatt, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Mar. 2022
  • But authorities now say that the boss in that story, Robert Telles, went to German’s home on a quiet cul-de-sac this month and stabbed him to death, months after the expose that may have cost him reelection was published.
    — Mike Baker, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2022
  • This interview was conducted the week after THR published its expose].
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 1 June 2021
  • This was on the eve of an especially damning expose that interviewed former People’s Temple members about the tactics used by Jones to feed his coffers and his ego.
    — John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press, 12 Oct. 2017
  • The allegations came to light last week after blogging platform Medium posted an expose which has since been deleted.
    — Ray Sanchez and Amir Vera, CNN, 4 Apr. 2018
  • The expose brought responses of dismay, disgust and anger from insiders and outsiders alike — and the reverberations are still being felt.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 Aug. 2022
  • Julian Assange will deliver a devastating expose on Hillary at a time of his choosing.
    — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2018
  • Horowitz has previously filmed an expose on the United Nations' inability to live up to its stated purpose and founding ideals of a more peaceful world.
    — Fox News, 17 June 2020

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