Explore Muckraking through 4 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like exposure. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Muckraking meaning
present participle and gerund of muckrake
Synonyms of Muckraking
Using Muckraking
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of muckrake
- Useful related words include: exposure.
Context around Muckraking
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 3 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 4 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Muckraking
- In this selection, "muckraking" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, fashioned, websites and novel stand out and add context to how "muckraking" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include activism and muckraking websites in and art of muckraking and do. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "muckraking" sits close to words such as aaaaand, aaah and aaargh, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with muckraking
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The podcast depicted this as retaliation against the show, a shameless effort to curtail old-fashioned muckraking. (17 words)
I might borrow a chapter from her book, Poison Penmanship: The Gentle Art of Muckraking, and do what she would have done. (22 words)
We first saw that 113 years ago here in Chicago, with the publication of Upton Sinclair’s muckraking novel “The Jungle,” an expose of the horrors of the old Union Stockyards. (31 words)
Aside from targeting lawyers, Beijing has also in recent years clamped down on grassroots activism and muckraking websites, in what rights groups say is an attempt to cut off rights activism at its roots. (34 words)
We first saw that 113 years ago here in Chicago, with the publication of Upton Sinclair’s muckraking novel “The Jungle,” an expose of the horrors of the old Union Stockyards. (31 words)
I might borrow a chapter from her book, Poison Penmanship: The Gentle Art of Muckraking, and do what she would have done. (22 words)
Example sentences (4)
The podcast depicted this as retaliation against the show, a shameless effort to curtail old-fashioned muckraking.
Aside from targeting lawyers, Beijing has also in recent years clamped down on grassroots activism and muckraking websites, in what rights groups say is an attempt to cut off rights activism at its roots.
We first saw that 113 years ago here in Chicago, with the publication of Upton Sinclair’s muckraking novel “The Jungle,” an expose of the horrors of the old Union Stockyards.
I might borrow a chapter from her book, Poison Penmanship: The Gentle Art of Muckraking, and do what she would have done.