How to Use exposition in a Sentence

exposition

noun
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  • The subject requires some exposition.
  • An 1891 flood forced the expositions to stop for nearly a decade.
    — Shelby Slade, The Arizona Republic, 20 Sep. 2024
  • But it’s only explanation, the lazy twin of exposition, to someone who is, to put it charitably, a slow learner.
    — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 15 Nov. 2018
  • The exposition, setting up the premise for the trip, is both lugubriously long and trivializingly brief.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 8 July 2019
  • Among those ploys, the film relies on Facetime and webcam chats to provide exposition and include other characters.
    — Caryn James, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 June 2019
  • The show just ended, then jumped forward 10 years for the principals to more or less tell, not show, their happy endings in a massive exposition dump masquerading as a talk show.
    — Tribune News Service, cleveland.com, 9 Aug. 2019
  • But even without the exposition, the melodies are decipherable: There is love and loss and inextinguishable longing.
    — National Geographic, 24 July 2019
  • So much of the exposition is dispatched with long reams of dialogue during scenes wherein a random comedic sidebar distracts from any pertinent information.
    — Katie Walsh, chicagotribune.com, 12 June 2019
  • For Sama is a brilliant exposition of the Syrian tragedy that is at once profound, moving, and excruciating.
    — Brian Stewart, National Review, 10 Aug. 2019
  • And what little substance there is essentially forms dramatic exposition for the next Fantastic Beasts movie.
    — Aja Romano, Vox, 17 Nov. 2018
  • 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
  • Instead of belaboring, with tedious exposition, the specifics of a culture and setting that are rare, if not unique in cinema, the director turns in the opposite direction.
    — The Washington Post, The Mercury News, 27 June 2019
  • 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
  • There is no recap, and nothing in the way of exposition.
    — Matt Alt, The New Yorker, 18 June 2021
  • The pacing of the show is tight, although some moments of exposition can lag.
    — Theodore P. Mahne, NOLA.com, 12 May 2018
  • In premiering with two episodes rather than one, Disney+ gets most of the exposition and set-up out of the way quickly.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Plenty of spinoffs can forge their own path with five minutes or less of exposition and rehashing.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 19 Sep. 2024

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