Sentence examples for ground exposed from inspiring English sources

Approaching the compound would require the paratroopers to cross several hundred yards of open ground, exposed to anyone who might fire on them.

As a participant you were separated from the ground, exposed in space and to the elements, as well as to the public in the square.

A year after the documentary The Hunting Ground exposed a campus rape epidemic and systemic coverup efforts by some administrations, Audrie & Daisy debuts as an equally devastating film that shows how high school students are also at risk.

Unlike his drawings, which playfully abound in varieties of line, texture and color, Mr. Adams's paintings on canvas are made with a raw expressionist's touch in drab colors, leaving much of the white ground exposed, albeit smudged and smeared.

Both sites were located on flat open ground, exposed to sun and wind, as generally appropriate when building wood stores.

This movement of the litter subsequently results in an increased variability in the amount of bare ground exposed, and other soil cover parameters.

The design is then scratched or pressed into the ground, exposing the metal in these areas.

One especially damaging practice was "mowing the lawn"—raiding areas repeatedly to clear out insurgents without holding the ground, exposing anyone friendly to the British to grisly retribution.

For songs rooted in show tunes and classical music as well as rock, the rhythms are both a playground and a testing ground, exposing Ms. Apple's voice even as they propel her to take chances.

Columns of black smoke boiled up briefly into the blue sky as the dry roofs and walls burned to the ground, exposing little indoor tableaux of charred tables and chairs, broken cups and bowls, an occasional bed, and the ubiquitous bomb shelters.

"Let me in!" When her husband Nemesio cracked open the door to ask him to leave, the man, who smelled strongly of alcohol, allegedly kicked him in the stomach and grabbed Olga, who was wearing a bathrobe and fell to the ground – exposing her body.