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Example sentences for "being exposed"

  • These are composed of wood and roots of shrubs, that are partly decomposed by being exposed to moisture under ground, and yet, in some measure, preserve their form and organic appearance.

  • Gums of difficult solubility are rendered more soluble by being exposed, in the state of powder, for some time to the air.

  • Genuine musk often becomes nearly inodorous by keeping, but recovers its smell on being exposed to the vapour of ammonia, or by being moistened with ammonia water.

  • The water which drains from the mud is collected by the Javanese, and by being exposed in the hollows of split bamboos to the rays of the sun, deposits crystals of salt.

  • It remains quietly in the bag it has formed, and at the end of fifteen days would pierce it, to issue forth, if it was not killed by being exposed to the heat of the sun, or shut up in an oven.

  • In Gasteromycetes, the second family, a true hymenium is also present, but instead of being exposed it is for a long time enclosed in an outer peridium or sac, until the spores are fully matured, or the fungus is beginning to decay.

  • These Oils, being exposed to the air for some time, sooner or latter grow thick, acquire an acrid taste, and a strong disagreeable smell.

  • Being exposed to the air it quickly attracts the moisture thereof, and runs into a liquor.

  • All these substances, being exposed, for a longer or shorter time, as the nature of each requires, to the violent action of fire, are said to be calcined.

  • Why is LINEN DRIED by being exposed to the WIND?

  • Why is BEER made STALE, by being exposed to the AIR?

  • On being exposed to the air for a few days, alabaster so treated acquires a marble-like hardness.

  • This kind of air is not restored by being exposed to the light, or by any other influence to which it is exposed, when confined in a thin phial, in the open air, for some months.

  • Very dry pieces of oak, being exposed to this air a day and a night, after imbibing a considerable quantity of it, produced air which was inflammable indeed, but in the slightest degree imaginable.

  • Beside the inconvenience of being exposed to the open air, night and day, in all weathers, we experienced real distress from the want of victuals.

  • Here is a soil, ‘originally rather unproductive, but much improved by deep culture; by being smashed up into rough clods early in autumn, and by being exposed in this state to the crumbling effects of the air.

  • It shows how greatly manure deteriorates by being exposed to rain, spread out on the surface of the yard.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "being exposed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    being agreeable; being anxious; being brought; being connected; being delivered; being deprived; being done; being driven; being easily; being found; being here; being introduced; being invisible; being lost; being many; being ordered; being played; being present; being produced; being raised; being seen; being subject; being the; being understood; being usually; believed himself