Example sentences for: expository

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

  • His expository aside was adopted as the law of the land by the Supreme Court in 1997.

  • 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.

  • 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 .

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

  • 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.


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