pontificated
- past participle of pontificate.
- past tense form of pontificate.
Example Sentences
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On Monday’s episode of The View, co-host Whoopi Goldberg pontificated on the matter for an entire segment, reading from Van der Velden’s apology before going in for the takedown.
From Slate ● Oct. 1, 2025
I listened where before I might only have pontificated.
From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2025
He pontificated, and they filed down that sharpness respectfully.
From Salon ● Mar. 4, 2024
Wasn’t it only a couple of weeks ago that Bill Plaschke pontificated on how much better the Clippers were than the Lakers?
From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2023
He pontificated and vaticinated from his retreat in the rue Saint-Sulpice, haranguing the reader with an apocalyptic language partaking in spots of the bitterness of an Isaiah.
From Against the Grain by Huysmans, J.-K. (Joris-Karl)
