Exposed

Examples

• Are we to be exposed to this unnatural conduct every moment of our lives? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• She was exposed to every stare, she passed on through a stretch of torment. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The clocks at the corresponding stations were set exactly together, so that the same letter was exposed to view at each instrument at the same instant. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• He hated to think of May Welland's being exposed to the influence of a young woman so careless of the dictates of Taste. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• The bodies of the murdered were then brought out and exposed in the street, till a hole could be made in the earth to receive and cover them. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The object now is subjected to the blast, and as the sand will not penetrate a softened material sufficient to abrade a surface beneath, the exposed portions alone will be cut away. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The annexed woodcuts show the figure of this Revolver, with the working parts round the lock exposed to view, together with the shape of the revolving chambered breech. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Chloride of lime when exposed to the air and moisture slowly gives off chlorine, and can be used as a disinfectant because the gas thus set free attacks germs and destroys them. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The British Ministry of Reconstruction and its foreign equivalents were exposed as a soothing sham. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Only so much of this disc was exposed to view as to show a single letter at a time, through a small aperture, as the seconds wheel revolved. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• And good Heaven,' said Mr. Gradgrind, wondering more and more, 'have you come here exposed to this storm? Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• They must not do less than others, or she should be exposed to odious suspicions, and imagined capable of pitiful resentment. Jane Austen. Emma.
• I have exposed myself to worse misconstruction than that, she said. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Those whom you have disarmed to satisfy groundless suspicions, will you leave them exposed to the armed madmen of your country? Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• It was situated against, the back of the cottage, and surrounded on the sides which were exposed by a pig-stye and a clear pool of water. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• People with certain kinds of skin freckle more quickly when the skin is exposed to the sun. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• There she was exposed naked on the naked flank of the horse. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Is it not dangerous to sit in so exposed a place? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Where the shadow fell the paper remained white, while the surrounding exposed parts darkened under the sun’s rays. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Miss Halcombe unhappily exposed herself to be wetted through by a heavy rain. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• But the coast line of Greece is one much exposed to naval action. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• She spoke with great agitation; and Emma very feelingly replied, That can be no reason for your being exposed to danger now. Jane Austen. Emma.
• The ground over which this corps (18th) had to move was the most exposed of any over which charges were made. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The strongest gusts of wind to which the bridge has been exposed have not caused a vibration of more than one inch. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• For the present, at least, neither your resolution nor mine will be exposed to any further trial. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• For he felt revealed, exposed to her, at a time when she was in some way against him. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Then the sniper behind the boulder a hundred yards down the slope exposed himself and fired. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The boiler was 3 feet 4 inches in diameter, and 6 feet long; and it exposed a heating surface of 117 square feet. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The commodities chiefly exposed for sale in the public streets are marine stores, hard-bake, apples, flat-fish, and oysters. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Twenty were exposed to the air on the heights of the Jura at an altitude of eight hundred and fift y meters above sea-level; the contents of five of these subsequently putrefied. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.

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