Example Sentences
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On Wednesday, Ono discoursed on group theory and theorems of Lagrange and Fermat as students watched him sketch, with a sure and rapid hand, the symbols of high-level math.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 27, 2020
Our guide, young but practiced in the art of distracting cold tourists, poured hot berry juice and discoursed on Arctic matters.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 22, 2019
In a long career, 50 years and counting, Mr. Stoppard, 81, has written plays, radio plays and screenplays that have discoursed on everything from Dadaism to analytic philosophy to particle physics to early Pink Floyd.
From New York Times ● Oct. 16, 2018
According to the film historian Kevin Brownlow, the crew sometimes took the film out of the camera and continued to crank as Tree discoursed, so as not to waste precious feet of celluloid.
From Slate ● Dec. 4, 2015
Course followed course, while sweet music was discoursed, and Dick felt in a land of enchantment.
From The Everlasting Arms by Hocking, Joseph
