Sample Sentences for
exposition
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exposition as in:  character exposition

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The first few episodes require more exposition and explanation as the audience learns about the characters.
exposition = explanation of background
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    We arrived in the city around noon, and I unloaded my displays at the cavernous Indiana Exposition Hall.†  (source)
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    Aister interprets the myth as 'an exposition of a logical problem: Supposing that originally there was nothing but one creator, how could ordinary binary sexual relations come into being?'†  (source)
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    "Yes, you see—" A voluble exposition followed.†  (source)
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    His notebooks were marvels of scholarly exposition.†  (source)
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    As for Tom's Bible, though it had no annotations and helps in margin from learned commentators, still it had been embellished with certain way-marks and guide-boards of Tom's own invention, and which helped him more than the most learned expositions could have done.†  (source)
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    Lounsbury was also an adept and favorite expositor.†  (source)
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    Yurii Andreievich found it hard to follow his exposition of them.†  (source)
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    Next to arms, eloquence offers the great avenue to popular favor, whether it be in civilized or savage life, and Rivenoak had succeeded, as so many have succeeded before him, quite as much by rendering fallacies acceptable to his listeners, as by any profound or learned expositions of truth, or the accuracy of his logic.†  (source)
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    Another English expositor, apparently following him, thought it necessary to add definitions of /hold-up/, /quitter/, /rube/, /shack/, /road-agent/, /cinch/, /live-wire/ and /scab/,[23] but he, too, mistook the meaning of /dead-beat/, and in addition he misdefined /band-wagon/ and substituted /get-out/, seemingly an invention of his own, for /get-away/.†  (source)
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    No, those papers weren't the type of smart, dispassionate exposition he'll need to excel, not the kind of collegiate prose that attaches carefully qualified examples to broad principles.†  (source)
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    Most of these were admirable and straightforward expositions of the doctrines and practice of Socialism, free from haste and spite and hard words, and came upon the public with a kind of May-day freshness, amidst the worry and terror of the moment; and though the knowing well understood that the meaning of this move in the game was mere defiance, and a token of irreconcilable hostility to the then rulers of society, and though, also, they were meant for nothing else by 'the rebels,' yet they really had their effect as 'educational articles.'†  (source)
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    His eye begets occasion for his wit, For every object that the one doth catch The other turns to a mirth-moving jest, Which his fair tongue, conceit's expositor, Delivers in such apt and gracious words That aged ears play truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished; So sweet and voluble is his discourse.†  (source)
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    Always didactic, he went into a learned exposition of the diabolical properties of cinnabar, but Ursula paid no attention to him, although she took the children off to pray.†  (source)
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exposition as in:  energy exposition in Dubai

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    It was displayed at the famous exposition in Paris in 1900.
    exposition = a collection of things on public display
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    He wore a faded purple T-shirt that said WORLD SHEEP EXPO 2001.†  (source)
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    His T-shirt'which said ARMAGEDDON EXPO '06: ARE YOU READY FOR THE END?'†  (source)
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    There, headlining Local News: MAJOR DRUG BUST with a picture of Roberto in a sporty pair of cuffs, followed by a daunting expos La Eme and the crank epidemic.†  (source)
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    At night the lights and the infilling darkness served to mask the expo sition's many flaws—among them, wrote John Ingalls in Cosmopolitan, the "unspeakable debris of innumerable luncheons"—and to create for a few hours the perfect city of Daniel Burnham's dreams.†  (source)
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    This his lordship did not chuse to do, though I once thought I had nearly prevail'd with him to do it; but finally he rather chose to urge the compliance of the Assembly; and he entreated me to use my endeavours with them for that purpose, declaring that he would spare none of the king's troops for the defense of our frontiers, and that, if we did not continue to provide for that defense ourselves, they must remain expos'd to the enemy.†  (source)
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    It was at this expo I worked, at the mall?†  (source)
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    The enemy, however, did not take the advantage of his army which I apprehended its long line of march expos'd it to, but let it advance without interruption till within nine miles of the place; and then, when more in a body (for it had just passed a river, where the front had halted till all were come over), and in a more open part of the woods than any it had pass'd, attack'd its advanced guard by a heavy fire from behind trees and bushes, which was the first intelligence the general had of an enemy's being near him.†  (source)
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    Lying in his bed, I would have this recurring dream: I'm at a Bible Sales Expo in a large, glass exhibition space that looks like the Javits Center.†  (source)
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    Loudoun, instead of defending the colonies with his great army, left them totally expos'd while he paraded idly at Halifax, by which means Fort George was lost, besides, he derang'd all our mercantile operations, and distress'd our trade, by a long embargo on the exportation of provisions, on pretence of keeping supplies from being obtain'd by the enemy, but in reality for beating down their price in favor of the contractors, in whose profits, it was said, perhaps from suspicion only, he had a share.†  (source)
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    His passengers at length are wafted o'er, Expos'd, in muddy weeds, upon the miry shore.†  (source)
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    But, remember—For that's my business to you,—that you three From Milan did supplant good Prospero; Expos'd unto the sea, which hath requit it, Him, and his innocent child: for which foul deed The powers, delaying, not forgetting, have Incens'd the seas and shores, yea, all the creatures, Against your peace.†  (source)
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    —The storm begins:—poor wretch, That for thy mother's fault art thus expos'd To loss and what may follow!†  (source)
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