1.   Any journalist who writes a story without checking his facts is simply laying himself open to criticism.

2.   By doing that, he laid himself open to ridicule.

3.   Here was another burial ground, laid open under the light for resurrection.

4.   The Evangelicals have become a powerful influence in the land and this lays them open to the wooing of politicians.

5.   The speech laid him open to charges of political bias.

6.   The party thereby lays itself open to charges of conflict of interest.

7.   Her heart sank as she realized what she had laid herself open to.

8.   From O.J. Simpson to Mary K. Letourneau to Monica Lewinsky, conventional wisdom is that a life carefully laid open is a life bettered.

9.   Late in life the couple saw their home life laid open publicly in a way that was unsettling.

10.   The master of humor lays open the heart of his life story.