on exhibit

idiom

: being publicly shown in an exhibition
The photographs are on exhibit in the museum's west wing.
The painting went on exhibit last week.

Examples of on exhibit in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Safari park visitors will be able to see the new calf on exhibit starting in mid-April. Julia Daye, Sacramento Bee, 9 Apr. 2024 But the new regulations have prompted Stanford to cover some items on exhibit in its Cantor Arts Center as the university reaches out to tribes to determine whether those artifacts meet the definition of cultural objects under the law. Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 17 Feb. 2024 But a facsimile of the work, certified by the World Record Academy as the world’s longest love poem, is on exhibit in the building Marina once lived in. Sam Roberts, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2024 The influence of the latter field is not immediately evident in the streamlined white objects on exhibit in Buster’s concurrent shows at the Kreeger Museum and Tephra Institute of Contemporary Art. Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2024 Schwartz’s work is on exhibit at the Wheelhouse of Willow Glen in San Jose Jan. 15-March 14. Lisa Thorn, The Mercury News, 14 Jan. 2024 The ice cream truck is not just central to the show’s layout, but also the most striking object on exhibit. Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2024 One of the specimens in Woodward’s study, it was unearthed in Montana in the early 2000s and is on exhibit in Rockford, Ill., at the Burpee Museum of Natural History. Zachary Small, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2024 The Little Rock Zoo's new male jaguar LeBron is now on exhibit. Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Arkansas Online, 23 Oct. 2023

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“On exhibit.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/on%20exhibit. Accessed 26 Apr. 2024.

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