expose
verb (used with object)
to lay open to danger, attack, harm, etc..
had been exposing
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past perfect progressiveof expose.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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Molavi had been exposing corruption at the highest levels of Iran's leadership.
From BBC ● May 15, 2025
For the sake of his triple-decker life, Sherry went everywhere the globe-trotting novelist had been, exposing himself to every blowpipe and mosquito-loud interior.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 24, 2016
Dias had been exposing male mice to acetophenone — a chemical with a sweet, almond-like smell — and then giving them a mild foot shock.
From Nature ● Mar. 5, 2014
The scandal of George F. Ewald, judge of the Traffic Court, was another climax in a long series of Democratic scandals which mischance and political adversaries had been exposing all through Mayor Walker's administration.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Aunt Lora helped me to nurse him, and she made me see how I had been exposing him to all sorts of risks, and—well, now we guard against them."
From The Coming of Bill by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
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