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Six example sentences with revealing, each labelled with its topic.
The portrait's most revealing detail is the sitter's hands, scrubbed and worn in a way the silk gown cannot hide.
Art
A child's drawing of the family dinner table can be more revealing than an hour of carefully worded interview questions.
Psychology
The street photographer waited for the revealing instant when a passerby's posture gave away the mood of the entire street.
Photography
The most revealing statistic was not points but minutes: the star had played every second of the fourth quarter for ten straight games.
Basketball
The candidate's most revealing moment came off script, when she was asked the price of a loaf of bread and guessed wildly.
Politics
The revealing experiment was the simplest one: the plants grown under green light alone barely grew at all.
Science
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