Deprived of protection

Usage examples of exposed.

But the peculiar infelicity of the Byzantine princes exposed them to domestic perils, without affording any lively promise of foreign conquest.

What the crushingly powerful four-limbed hug would have done to a human unprotected by a suit designed to withstand pressures comparable to those found at the bottom of an ocean probably did not bear thinking about, but then a human exposed without protection to the conditions required to support Affronter life would be dying in at least three excitingly different and painful ways anyway without having to worry about being crushed by a cage of leg-thick tentacles.

After a signal victory over the Franks and Alemanni, several of their princes were exposed by his order to the wild beasts in the amphitheatre of Treves, and the people seem to have enjoyed the spectacle, without discovering, in such a treatment of royal captives, anything that was repugnant to the laws of nations or of humanity.

Species inheriting nearly the same constitution from a common parent and exposed to similar influences will naturally tend to present analogous variations, and these same species may occasionally revert to some of the characters of their ancient progenitors.

Every hybridizer knows how unfavourable exposure to wet is to the fertilisation of a flower, yet what a multitude of flowers have their anthers and stigmas fully exposed to the weather!

This only added to the anxiety of several thousand staffers who were left to wonder whether they had been exposed and were at risk for anthrax infection.

The same amount of anthrax placed in the ventilation system of a building could have exposed thousands to a lethal dose.

You have reason to believe you have been exposed to anthrax through a suspicious letter or package.

In the opening chapter, I talked about the more than six thousand nasal swab tests that were done on those who were potentially exposed to anthrax spores on Capitol Hill.

They have been exposed to more input, so much they have been unable to appraise and assimilate it, but are able to turn it into immediate output, impressively glib, and commercially sincere.

Manticore, and the system astrography is going to leave Sphinx especially exposed.

In the foyer was an autograph book on a lighted stand and a small stack of souvenir pictures: Jesus, His sacred heart exposed like a biology-book illustration.

If bankrupt, he should be condemned, as formerly, to the pillory on the Place de la Bourse, and exposed for two hours, wearing a green cap.

PORTABLE AIRLOCK - LATER Barnes labors over the robot, the innards exposed, with an Allen wrench, Ted hovering over him.

Now the different sewers broadened out into wide, flatter basons rather as a river widens at its mouth, so that the water ran down the middle leaving banks of deep mud exposed at the sides.