How to Use exposition in a Sentence

exposition

noun

• The subject requires some exposition.
• As in any good farce, the exposition takes less than half a page.
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 23 Nov. 2021
• Yet none of that lands as exposition.
  — Charlie Fink, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
• That scene wasn't about finding a glitzy way to do some exposition.
  — Angela Watercutter, Wired, 29 Jan. 2021
• 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
• That’s not for lack of exposition, spoon-fed to us in the later episodes.
  — Sophia Nguyen, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2021
• And each episode is glacially paced, with far too many exposition dumps.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 25 Dec. 2024
• Cut the fluff, the warm-up, the flowery exposition.
  — Jd Barker, Rolling Stone, 19 Dec. 2025
• No soap and no way to dry your hands at the cookline and exposition line handwash sinks.
  — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 15 Aug. 2025
• 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 danger of getting bogged down in exposition was all too clear.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2022
• The script needs a whole lot of exposition, which is sorely lacking.
  — Michael Heaton, cleveland.com, 26 May 2017
• 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
• Cut out or weave in the opening exposition and get straight to the exciting part.
  — Goldie Chan, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2021
• That’s a lot of exposition for a guy who isn’t going to live another week.
  — David Segal, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2020
• As was the case in the first game, the exposition is mixed seamlessly with gameplay.
  — Benjamin Levin, CNN Underscored, 12 June 2020
• The problem here is that the show constantly gets bogged down in exposition and filler.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 27 Apr. 2021
• The pacing of the show is tight, although some moments of exposition can lag.
  — Theodore P. Mahne, NOLA.com, 12 May 2018
• Yes it's bogged down in exposition like the previous two, but there's a knowing wink to it all now.
  — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 17 Dec. 2021
• Yes it's bogged down in exposition like the previous two, but there's a knowing wink to it all now.
  — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 16 Dec. 2021
• With the help of huge swathes of exposition, For Life rushes through its premise.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Feb. 2020
• 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
• There are these expositions in your youth that open you up to this idea of, like, this is what my vocation is going to be.
  — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2023
• The opera has been trimmed to 90 minutes, with much of its recitative plot exposition trimmed out.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Apr. 2021
• An 1891 flood forced the expositions to stop for nearly a decade.
  — Shelby Slade, The Arizona Republic, 20 Sep. 2024
• There’s no exposition in the pilot.
  — Dave Itzkoff, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2026
• The book is, at times, breathless in its exposition, and nuance is sometimes lost in the shuffle.
  — David Treuer, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2022
• The hour had come to repose the Blessed Sacrament, to move it from exposition to rest.
  — New York Times, 26 June 2021
• The crimes themselves are sketched in exposition; for years, women in the colony had awakened dazed and bloodied in their beds.
  — Amanda Hess, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2022
• So much of the show consists of speeches, tours, grand expositions — people speaking and singing to and with large crowds.
  — Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 22 Nov. 2024