Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Scanning the room, largely full of teenagers, she elaborates on her last point.

From BBC • Feb. 16, 2026

Here he elaborates, line by lyrical line, on an eloquent poem about social justice by Nikky Finney.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 2025

She acknowledges but barely elaborates on them, they claim.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 20, 2024

"In our devices, electrons propagate in two opposite directions within the same nanoscale space and without scattering," Dr Barrier elaborates.

From Science Daily • Apr. 24, 2024

The meadow lark, with three hundred notes to work with, arranges these in phrases of three to six notes and elaborates fifty types of song.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas