ADJECTIVE
  1. serving to expound or set forth
    clean expository writing
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How To Use expository In A Sentence

  • He may be low-key speaker, but he has plenty to say, and most of it is gold, rather than the “Oh, here’s where Vicki Vale is shown into the Batcave” kind of expository stuff found on many commentaries. Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
  • Unfortunately, there have been an awful lot of books about World War II, and The Postmistress, while intelligent and well meaning, doesn’t ultimately have much new to add ... the dialogue lacks snap ... and [Blake] engages in expository overload that’s really not needed for such a well-known tale. The Postmistress: Summary and book reviews of The Postmistress by Sarah Blake.
  • In these, the last years of his life, he wrote often, sometimes a teasing postcard, sometimes an expository letter six pages long.
  • They were interested in whether older adults could be taught to identify the structures in expository text and use this information to increase their learning from text. Advanced Educational Psychology For Educators, Researchers and Policymakers,
  • Instead of poetic diction, we have expository prose.
  • Although Virginia Woolf's version of "psychological realism" needs to be taken as a special case -- it's so pure an attempt to stay within the flow of her character's stream of thought -- I would argue that most expository passages in modern fiction do in fact take place as part of the "foregrounding of psychology. Genre Fiction
  • Readers are vulnerable to the same confusions, meaning that a little too much of Zero History is devoted to expository dialogue about the capabilities of particular devices or the connections between separate elements of its twisting plot. Zero History by William Gibson
  • The series followed a conventional expository format with reconstructions illustrating an investigation into why certain species had expired.
  • Whether subjects used one of the expository structures to organize their recall of text was examined. Advanced Educational Psychology For Educators, Researchers and Policymakers,
  • The wording muddies the claim's logic - it's unfalsifiable - and allows the writer to avoid a lot of expository work. The Times Literary Supplement
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