expound
verb (used with object)
to set forth or state in detail.
had been expounding
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past perfect progressiveof expound.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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Instructor Kiphuth, in the meantime, had been expounding his theories on body-building with such success that he was appointed swimming coach at Yale.
From Time Magazine Archive
"No sir," replied Sam, blushing to think how he had been expounding to the general, a nice point which that officer must understand much better than he did.
From Captain Sam The Boy Scouts of 1814 by George Cary Eggleston
A young man, barely thirty-six years old, he had already become a well-known figure in the West, where for years he had been expounding the doctrine of free silver.
From The Agrarian Crusade; a chronicle of the farmer in politics by Solon J. (Solon Justus) Buck
It was powerful and effective and nailed some of the main fallacies that Bryan had been expounding.
From Under Four Administrations From Cleveland to Taft by Oscar S. Straus
Granser recollected himself, and with a start tore himself away from the rostrum of the lecture-hall, where, to another world audience, he had been expounding the latest theory, sixty years gone, of germs and germ-diseases.
From The Scarlet Plague by Gordon Grant
