exposure

In a sentence

Six example sentences with exposure, each labelled with its topic.

• Two hikers turned back at the ridge because eight hours of exposure above the treeline had left them shaking.

  Travel

• Years of exposure had stripped the paint from the lighthouse and pitted its iron railings down to bare metal.

  Environment

• Cedar shingles on that coast need replacing every decade, since constant exposure warps them long before the frame weakens.

  Architecture

• Winter swimmers limit their exposure to a few minutes, since cold water pulls heat from the body far faster than air.

  Fitness

• The hikers were treated for exposure after a night on the moor in wet clothes and a wind that never dropped.

  Medicine

• Scott's polar party suffered from exposure for weeks, and their diaries record fingers too numb to hold a pencil.

  History

Found in these word lists

Each source is a published word list that contains exposure. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

More Academic words

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• circumstances
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• framework
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• monitoring
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• conclusion