How to Use lay bare in a Sentence

lay bare

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• Even food has become hard to come by as some grocery store shelves lay bare.
  — Janet Shamlian, CBS News, 19 Feb. 2021
• That said, bear markets can often, well, lay bare what needs to change in your portfolio.
  — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 5 July 2022
• The Russians dumped some 450 bodies into the crude graves that now lay bare.
  — Martin Kuz, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Apr. 2023
• On Sunday, slabs lay bare on the ground where houses once stood along the streets of Dawson Springs.
  — New York Times, 12 Dec. 2021
• Besides, the contest lay bare the mettle of the military, if only in sporting terms.
  — Mike Klingaman, baltimoresun.com, 9 Dec. 2021
• The committee can lay bare the black heart of hate groups—their thirst for blood, and their attempts to manipulate the public.
  — Maya Wiley, The New Republic, 3 Dec. 2021
• The collection is paired with an exhibition of helpful hacks that lay bare the cutting process of each garment.
  — Kevin Leblanc, ELLE, 8 June 2022
• That snap would lay bare the radar and cameras that make up a new system called terrain-relative navigation.
  — Sarah Scoles, Wired, 18 Feb. 2021
• In his suit, Flores, who is Black, argues that the numbers lay bare that there is a lack of diversity in these roles.
  — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 9 Feb. 2022
• Fortinbras, a movement of unhoused youths, lay bare the crimes of his uncle Claudius, played by Art Malik.
  — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 6 Sep. 2025
• His charging documents also seem to lay bare some of the challenges for law enforcement in making cases from chaotic mass shootings.
  — Lee O. Sanderlin, Baltimore Sun, 11 July 2023
• While the pandemic has kept many at home instead of heading into the office for work, streets downtown lay bare by Thursday, eerily silent.
  — Anna Giaritelli, Washington Examiner, 15 Jan. 2021
• Other works lay bare the kinds of debts that capitalism effaces in order to sustain a fantasy of frictionlessness.
  — Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 29 July 2026
• Ronan uses silence to build anticipation for that moment when the sky will crack open — literally with a hail storm — and the brothers lay bare their pain.
  — Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 19 Sep. 2025
• And on Wednesday, the Israel Defense Forces' top spokesman seemed to lay bare the rift at the top of the country's leadership.
  — Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, 20 June 2024
• Records from Metro and federal agencies lay bare how crucial federal commuting dollars are to the transit agency.
  — Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2021
• Foreign involvement is one area that could lay bare some differences between GOP candidates.
  — Monica Potts, ABC News, 19 Jan. 2024
• Encampments like the one in the underpass lay bare decades of calamitous decisions by planners, politicians and health and housing authorities.
  — New York Times, 14 June 2022
• These artists and writers share an investment in repeatedly returning to the past to see what unexpected results each embarkation will lay bare.
  — Tahneer Oksman, Washington Post, 17 May 2023
• The move would lay bare the deep division with the GOP after the party’s underwhelming results in the midterm elections.
  — Ronald J. Hansen, The Arizona Republic, 13 Nov. 2022
• The holiday season will lay bare inequalities in the economic recovery.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 16 Nov. 2021
• By Episode 6, they are forced to lay bare everything between them, especially when Liv finds out there’s a second woman in Will’s life.
  — Hunter Ingram, Variety, 16 Sep. 2023
• And the activities and figures associated with his group lay bare the inconsistencies in his branding.
  — Rob Picheta, CNN Money, 15 Dec. 2025
• But their uncanny ability to lay bare the devastation of heartbreak and romantic breakups while giving it earworm hooks was their superpower.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2022
• While robust air defense on both sides has limited the use of air power in the war, the documents lay bare the consequences of what could happen if Ukraine’s ability is eroded.
  — Serhiy Morgunov, Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2023
• Snell's experiences lay bare a systemic exclusion of disabled people that has existed in the fashion industry since its inception.
  — Lottie Jackson, CNN, 29 Sep. 2021
• These archival treasures unfold the complex lives of the partners, who wrote and rehearsed at home, and lay bare the stresses that all four endured because there was no boundary between performance and reality.
  — Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2025
• White reaches his own conclusion about who dunnit, but the real interest of his book is his use of the crime and especially the cover-up to lay bare the forces at work in the early days of Stanford.
  — Jessica Riskin, The New York Review of Books, 1 June 2023
• Two years ago, the DEA arrested a Mexican general, hoping to lay bare the high-level corruption at the heart of organized crime.
  — Tim Golden, ProPublica, 8 Dec. 2022
• The findings lay bare how social and economic inequality — driven in large part by historic and ongoing racist policies and practices — leaves millions at a disadvantage as the climate crisis heats up.
  — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 12 Nov. 2021