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

The last sentence, however, after “when they thought they dreamt,” is a fall into the error which he had been exposing.

From An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent by Newman, John Henry