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Example sentences for "exposed"

Lexicographically close words:
exporter; exporters; exporting; exports; expose; exposer; exposes; exposicion; exposing; exposition
  1. And this is the universal Rule for the Foci of double Convex Glasses exposed to diverging Rays.

  2. In vain did I try to elude the incessant streams that poured upon me; by protecting one part I only exposed another, and the water was continually finding some new opening through which to drench us.

  3. She singled out from their number an old salt, whose bare arms and feet, and exposed breast, were covered with as many inscriptions in India ink as the lid of an Egyptian sarcophagus.

  4. This oil is obtained in great abundance by the following very simple process: A large vessel of wood, with holes perforated in the bottom, is filled with the pounded meat, and exposed to the rays of the sun.

  5. A person employed by officers of justice, or parties exposed to injury, to induce a suspected person to commit an offense under circumstances that will lead to his detection.

  6. The protection of the interior walls of a fortification from an enfilading fire, as by covering them, or by a high parapet on the exposed side.

  7. It merely covers the exposed parts of the teeth of man, but in many animals is intermixed in various ways with the dentine and cement.

  8. Exposed to trials; made too frail to bear.

  9. Now you must lose that form; be parched and rivelled, Like a dried mummy, or dead malefactor, Exposed in chains, and blown about by winds.

  10. One nest we found by a roadside near Ronceval; it was within arm's length of the road, and seemed exposed to every possible danger.

  11. The Sky Lark breeds in all the Islands, and occasionally places its nest in such exposed situations that it is wonderful how the young escape.

  12. And to those who ask why he was condemned to die, the oracle of the goddess replied, The body, indeed, is always exposed to torments, but the souls of the pious abide in heaven.

  13. Of the miseries and ills to which the human race is justly exposed through the first sin, and from which none can be delivered save by Christ's grace.

  14. At that time Codrus king of Athens exposed himself incognito to be slain by the Peloponnesian foes of that city, and so was slain.

  15. What man can go out of his own house without being exposed on all hands to unforeseen accidents?

  16. The criminals are not exposed to view till they mount the fatal stage.

  17. The chapel still continued incommodious and insufficient; female prisoners were still exposed to the full view of the males, the netting in front of the gallery being perfectly useless as a screen.

  18. Lord Ferrers' body was brought to Surgeons' Hall after execution in his own carriage and six; after the post mortem had been performed, the corpse was exposed to view in a first-floor room.

  19. Inquiry into the character of Good exposed him as a loose liver, who "kept company" with several women.

  20. On the left side of the head the fatal mall, and on the right the ripping chisel, with which the murders had been committed, were exposed to view.

  21. This indiscriminate association lasted for months, during the whole of which time the unhappy convicts who had but little hope of commutation were exposed to the mockery of their reckless associates.

  22. Their offence did not come under penal statute, so they were merely exposed in the pillory, where, however, the mob pelted one to death and nearly killed another.

  23. There were frequently in the middle yard seven or eight children, the youngest barely nine, the oldest only twelve or thirteen, exposed to all the contaminating influences of the place.

  24. Am I to be exposed to insulting disturbance in my very study, because she chooses to introduce girls of bad character as servants to vulgar women?

  25. If this sounds rather gross to you, I can only say that Jasper's moral nature will never be safe as long as he is exposed to the risks of poverty.

  26. Bab recovered herself as soon as he was out of sight; but she further exposed herself by exclaiming, "I'm sure I wish this pitiful guinea-hen had never come into my possession.

  27. Angels of youth, who are exposed to so many dangers, conduct them in safety to the bosom of God, as Tobias was conducted back to his father.

  28. There is no place at the inns for one so poor, so they are obliged to take refuge in a deserted stable, and there, exposed to all the inclemencies of the weather, the Queen of angels brings forth the Son of the Most High.

  29. He was the first to be exposed to the persecutions of the Jews for the Lord.

  30. They had to travel through unknown lands, under a burning sun, exposed to wild beasts, and the enmity of wandering tribes.

  31. Oh, then, all you who are exposed to the temptations of the world, raise your eyes to this Star of the sea.

  32. It moves on two pivots, one of winch is shown on its exposed side.

  33. Some constitutions can bear much less excitement than others; and in every family of children, there is usually one or more of delicate organization, and consequently peculiarly exposed to dangers from this source.

  34. This result was owing to the fact that all the functions of the body were more perfectly performed when, by friction, the skin was kept free from filth and the blood in it exposed to the air.

  35. A quart of water in a wide shallow pan will give more moisture than two gallons with a small surface exposed to heat.

  36. It is a common notion, that it is important to secure these virtues to one sex, more than to the other; and, by a strange inconsistency, the sex most exposed to danger is the one selected as least needing care.

  37. And often when a remedy is sought, by evaporating water in the furnace, it is without knowing that the amount evaporated depends, not on the quantity of water in the vessel, but on the extent of evaporating surface exposed to the air.

  38. If the skin of infants is rubbed with the hand till red with blood, and then exposed naked to sun and air in a well-ventilated room, it will be favorable to health.

  39. They ought not to be kept very warm in winter, nor exposed to great changes of atmosphere.

  40. A person who is often exposed to such influences can never enjoy that elasticity and vigor of mind which is one of the chief indications of its health.

  41. The Lombard bankers wore next exposed to the rage of the people; and though, by taking sanctuary in the churches, they escaped with their lives, all their money and goods became a prey to the licentious multitude.

  42. Meanwhile he was exposed to anxiety from every quarter; and felt that the smallest incident was capable of overturning that immense and ill-cemented fabric which he had reared.

  43. A union also in government opened to them the agreeable prospect of future tranquillity; and it appeared more probable that they would henceforth become formidable to their neighbours, than be exposed to their inroads and devastations.

  44. The king’s severity also towards his mother, the queen-dowager, though exposed to some more censure, met not with very general disapprobation.

  45. It was under these circumstances that he first saw his brother Artaxerxes, whose person had been exposed to view by the flight of the body-guards.

  46. Hence these officers were exposed to dishonor and peril; for, having positively engaged to find pay for the army, they were now unable to keep their word.

  47. Undoubtedly they had been better educated, and had been exposed to more liberalizing and improving influences, than the corresponding class elsewhere.

  48. On this occasion, the victim was at once favorable; so that he led out without delay the greater part of the force, to the rescue of the exposed detachment, which was brought back in safety to the camp.

  49. If there would have been an assault made, would not the troops have been exposed without entrenchments?

  50. I know I sent some of them out, for they succeeded in getting out, some from this exposed place, down to the cellar of the hotel.

  51. It is that everybody takes the liberty of talking, and that the most honourable man is exposed to the scoffing of the first buffoon he meets.

  52. These four corner sockets were never exposed before in historic times; and it may be very long before an opportunity of seeing and using them again shall ever be afforded to any other measurers.

  53. The accompanying woodcut is a copy of a sketch, made at the time, by my friend Mr. Drummond, of the stone as exposed when pursuing this search around its exposed basis.

  54. Their secrets cannot be summarily cut open and exposed by the sword of any son of Philip.

  55. Exposed section of the arch of the vault.

  56. When the sulphurous acid mixes with the tinted liquid, the violet color of the latter disappears and changes to a greenish tint, which, however, turns again to blue upon the feathers when they are afterwards exposed to the action of the air.

  57. In the plant the color exists as a yellowish liquid; but when extracted and exposed to the action of the air it becomes insoluble, and takes an intensely blue color.

  58. The color this produces is very satisfactory when finished, but no sooner is it exposed to strong light than the color becomes a dirty drab shade, caused by the acid leaving the feathers, the logwood becoming oxidized.

  59. They are exposed on the one hand in the neighbourhood of the Rhine and on the other hand in the Bohemian massif.

  60. Exposed to the air it tarnishes slightly yellow, and with vinegar affords a crust of verdigris.

  61. The shoots must be kept tied out so as to be fully exposed to the light.

  62. The Cambrian, for example, is exposed at Leimitz near Hof in the Frankenwald, and the important coal-field of the Saar lies on the southern side of the Hunsruck, while Ordovician and Silurian beds have been found in several localities.

  63. At no respectable school, except under very rare and peculiar circumstances, are boys exposed to any worse difficulties in the way of cruelty than they can very easily prevent or overcome.

  64. This is really amazing when one thinks how many of the men are isolated on lonely posts all over the island, exposed to all sorts of weather, and cut off from the ordinary resources and amusements of social life.

  65. He shook his head and exposed his white teeth in a flashing smile.

  66. The Frenchman flashed him a smile which exposed a row of teeth snow-white against his tan.

  67. He grinned half- heartedly and, after a brief hesitation, thrust forth a clumsy paw, lifted a shell, and exposed the object of general curiosity.

  68. I've exposed him to the law and to public scorn.

  69. Rouletta realized that she should not have exposed herself anew to the cold, for now her sensations had become vaguely alarming.

  70. This dilapidation was the work of one Van Ling, a Dutchman, by trade a Taylor, who bought it of Parliament when Bishop's lands were exposed to sale.

  71. Who can doubt that she exposed and killed this child in order to rid herself at once of her burden and her shame?

  72. Whether, if she either knowingly exposed and killed her child, or willfully concealed the birth, there were any circumstances in the case which call for mitigation of the penalties provided by the penal code?

  73. But now that reign of deceit is gone forever, and our wretchedness is exposed to every eye.

  74. Whether in their opinion Anna Kovalenka exposed her child with a view to kill it?

  75. Her folly, she told herself, it was which had so stripped her of her natural defences, and exposed her to suffering.

  76. She kept the wallflower, took it away from its exposed situation in the Encyclopaedia, and put it in great safety among her own private possessions.

  77. Seemingly of their own accord, they fell open, and exposed the interior.

  78. She became oblivious to any danger there might be in a visit to such an exposed place at such a time, and to all lesser considerations, and made up her mind to forestall them.


  79. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "exposed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    aerial; aery; airy; apparent; bald; bare; belied; bleak; blown; breezy; clear; confounded; deflated; denied; denuded; dependent; detectable; discarded; discernible; disclosed; discredited; dismissed; disproved; disputed; divested; ethereal; evident; exploded; exposed; free; impugned; insecure; invalidated; liable; light; manifest; naked; noticeable; obnoxious; observable; open; overt; overthrown; perceivable; perceptible; pneumatic; prone; public; raw; recognizable; rejected; responsible; revealed; roomy; sensitive; showing; stripped; subject; susceptible; unclassified; unclouded; unconcealed; uncovered; undisguised; unguarded; unhidden; unobstructed; unrestricted; unstopped; upset; visible; visual


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    exposed card; exposed situations