were exposing
- past progressive of expose.
Example Sentences
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In a speech to the Human Rights Council following a trip to Ukraine last week, Turk said that Russian strikes were exposing millions of people to "extreme hardship".
From Reuters ● Dec. 15, 2022
Before, French women had talked about their individual experiences, and now they were exposing a trend, as a group.
From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2022
But we also recognized that grocery-store employees, transit operators, agricultural workers and many others were exposing themselves to danger to help feed, protect and serve the rest of us.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 6, 2020
Some did so in the sincere belief that they were exposing subversives, some to preserve their careers against threatened blacklisting, some to settle scores, some out of a combination of all these motivations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2020
They well knew the danger, humanly speaking, to which they were exposing themselves, but not for a moment did they hesitate doing what they knew to be right.
From Count Ulrich of Lindburg A Tale of the Reformation in Germany by Kingston, William Henry Giles
