Example sentences for: expository

How can you use “expository” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The sixth and seventh selections, one expository, one narrative, merit the authors' praise: “good” and “graceful” are used in the comments; other adjectives are clear (structure), manageable (sentence length), appropriate (vocabulary), delicate (shifts of language level), and vivid .

  • Unfortunately, there has not been a good (bookwriting) linguist who was also a good writer of expository prose since Otto Jespersen, the Santayana of linguistics, and he died in 1943.

  • We still want our students to take survey courses, Shakespeare, and advanced expository writing, but we have a different mechanism for going about making it happen.

  • His appellate opinions contain long expository "asides" when he disagrees with the law as handed down by the Supreme Court.

  • One need only read the academic papers published in linguistic journals to be convinced that, notwithstanding their specialty, linguists at large are incapable of writing simple, expository, declarative sentences without resorting to turgid syntax, obscure vocabulary, and uncompromising sesquipedalianism.


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