How to Use exposure in a Sentence

exposure

noun
  • He risks exposure to ridicule by saying such things in public.
  • The candidates are competing for television exposure.
  • To be playing in front of that amount of people and have that kind of exposure was crazy.
    Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 1 Dec. 2023
  • In Asia, direct exposure to the risks from the U.S. failures seemed slim, at least so far.
    Yuri Kageyama, ajc, 14 Mar. 2023
  • It can be charged through solar exposure or through the hand crank.
    Meredith Woerner, Variety, 5 Apr. 2024
  • They’re supposed to help make up for the loss of light exposure and ease symptoms of SAD.
    Caitlin Pagán, Verywell Health, 3 Oct. 2023
  • And, as in the past, the system often helps acts repped by the biggest labels get the most exposure.
    Rebecca Giblin Cory Doctorow, WIRED, 4 Oct. 2022
  • More likely vectors of exposure to habits of trompe l’oeil lay outside the world of fine art.
    Susan Tallman, The New York Review of Books, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Even short-term exposure can land you in the emergency room.
    WIRED, 19 June 2023
  • This is the first time transmission has been traced back to exposure to sick and dead birds in backyard flocks.
    Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Cameron: Some of my first exposures to music were in car rides with my parents.
    Ryan Reed, SPIN, 1 June 2023
  • More than two dozen puppies died of cold exposure, the USDA found.
    Lizzie Johnson, Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2022
  • Data shows that people in the Midwest, parts of the South and Colorado have the highest exposure.
    Danica Jefferies, NBC News, 10 Oct. 2022
  • The ideal exposure time, then, may be somewhere in the middle.
    Tori Latham, Robb Report, 11 May 2024
  • But the fracturing of that consensus, and the exposure of Hoover’s excesses, spelled the end of his reign.
    Julia Schimautz, The Atlantic, 13 Dec. 2022
  • The surveillance industry, in France and elsewhere, stands to gain a lot from the exposure.
    IEEE Spectrum, 27 Dec. 2023
  • The vaccine boosts way, way higher than a natural exposure to the live virus.
    Byjon Cohen, science.org, 2 Nov. 2022
  • In low light, cameras need to use slower shutter speeds to get a bright enough exposure.
    Brandon Widder, The Verge, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Staying safe The best way to protect yourself from bird flu is to avoid sources of exposure, according to the CDC.
    Brenda Goodman, CNN, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Symptoms appear seven to 21 days after initial exposure to the virus, which can last in the air for up to two hours.
    Ishani Desai, Sacramento Bee, 10 May 2024
  • Rotate the pots every two to three weeks for more even exposure to sunlight and more upright growth.
    Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 5 Feb. 2023
  • Two seconds exposure could capture two or three beats of the heart, the act of breathing, movements of the diaphragm or motion of joints.
    Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Others believe he was caught in a snowstorm and died of exposure.
    Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 12 Apr. 2023
  • And dogs tend to live alongside us, sharing our exposures.
    Alex Janin, WSJ, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Indecent exposure of that weird red head-and-neck thing.
    Colin Stokes, The New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2022
  • His events were the first real exposure for a lot of talented young boxers who were trying to make their way up the ranks.
    Ivan Carter, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The group with limited access gorged themselves for the full hour of exposure.
    Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 25 July 2024
  • Sun exposure is one of the biggest culprits behind aging—both on your face and on your hands.
    Vanessa Powell, Men's Health, 29 Nov. 2022
  • This encounter likely served as his exposure to B. suis.
    Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Since the flow of ions across the membrane is the primary component of a nerve impulse, this allows light exposure to trigger nerve impulses.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 21 Mar. 2025

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