How to Use exposition in a Sentence

exposition

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  • The subject requires some exposition.
  • Cut twenty minutes or so of fluff and exposition, tighten up the plotting, and go big on the gore and spectacle.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 23 May 2021
  • Tali, who is now untethered from exposition duty, gets the best loyalty mission in the game.
    — Jhaan Elker, Washington Post, 4 June 2021
  • First, there's his voice, which is warm, soothing and capable of delivering large amounts of exposition in a single breath.
    — Kyle Buchanan New York Times, Star Tribune, 14 May 2021
  • There’s a great deal of exposition in the play to bring viewers up to speed on the finance industry and that causes the play to sag a little in its third quarter.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Apr. 2021
  • The emotional exposition serves a purpose, however: getting Mare to recall the day her son died.
    — Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2021
  • And a treasure trove of information that’s discovered toward the end would count in most films as amateurish exposition.
    — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 20 May 2021
  • Disguising exposition through action is a standard SF technique, but these scenes have little emotional weight and slow down the pace of the story.
    — Washington Post, 23 May 2021
  • In the demerits column, an excess of pilot-episode exposition, several characters who let their ridiculous costumes do the talking, and that line about the toad and the lightning.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 26 July 2024
  • Shipstead's intellect and knowledge are on full display when the novel slows to survey the workings of boats and planes; the same is true during flashes of exposition about the process of painting or making a film.
    — Maggie Shipstead, Star Tribune, 30 Apr. 2021
  • The script, by Josh Stolberg and Pete Goldfinger, contains an unusual amount of exposition.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 12 May 2021
  • The announcement by city, state and auto show officials Tuesday marks the first major exposition to return to Chicago since the pandemic hit.
    — Robert Channick, chicagotribune.com, 4 May 2021
  • Charbonier and Powell set themselves a difficult task, to generate horror mostly with pictures and sound design, and only a few spoken lines of exposition.
    — Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2021
  • The family's arguments are full of exposition and philosophizing (and violence, in the case of March and Hap).
    — Stacey Swann, Star Tribune, 14 May 2021
  • As in any good farce, the exposition takes less than half a page.
    — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 23 Nov. 2021
  • That’s not for lack of exposition, spoon-fed to us in the later episodes.
    — Sophia Nguyen, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2021
  • The hour had come to repose the Blessed Sacrament, to move it from exposition to rest.
    — New York Times, 26 June 2021
  • For starters: sure, there's a lot less exposition in the film, but there's still way too much left over.
    — Simon Abrams, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Apr. 2018
  • With the help of huge swathes of exposition, For Life rushes through its premise.
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Feb. 2020
  • In the first season of The Witcher, much of this is explained in chunks of exposition.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 22 Dec. 2021
  • The list goes on and on, like an opening exposition crawl.
    — Vulture, 24 Sep. 2023
  • Most of the rest are sad solos that are heavy on plot exposition but light on catchy melody.
    — Pam Kragen, sandiegouniontribune.com, 29 Mar. 2018
  • As was the case in the first game, the exposition is mixed seamlessly with gameplay.
    — Benjamin Levin, CNN Underscored, 12 June 2020
  • There’s just not enough stuff to warrant a fourth film, and too much exposition to wrap up in two-and-a-half hours.
    — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 25 Jan. 2018
  • In lieu of action, this episode saw a lot of exposition.
    — Julie Kosin, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 July 2017
  • As the one to give much of the episode's exposition about the mythology of the yowie, Fern understood his role well.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 13 Aug. 2021
  • The big challenge was to try not to crush the audience at the start with an insane amount of exposition.
    — Mark Olsen Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2021
  • The opera has been trimmed to 90 minutes, with much of its recitative plot exposition trimmed out.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Apr. 2021
  • But the sled is so weighed down by exposition, not even magic reindeer can get it off the ground.
    — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The big and portentous orchestrations of John Williams play right through both exposition and action scenes like oppressive Musak.
    — John H. Dorr, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 July 2024

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