exposition
Example Sentences
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Its opening sequence is both graceful and conspicuous; its exposition is entirely legible, yet so very charming that its plainness doesn’t matter one bit.
From Salon • Feb. 28, 2026
Spencer is good company; Potts, whom I am always happy to see, is more an instrument of exposition than a full-blown character, and it feels a little unfair.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 4, 2026
Around 2,000 people watched the action inside Bern's Festhalle exposition hall.
From Barron's • Nov. 13, 2025
His scores, with their inherent rigor and overt religiosity, seemingly simple structure and patient exposition, conjure a world both foundational and unbound.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 27, 2025
There he would have found Grosseteste’s brief exposition of the one-sphere theory.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing exposition
The AP English Exam: Rhetorical and Literary Terms 1
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Vocabulary to Describe Literary Devices
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Expository Writing, List 1
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