Example Sentences

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“Miller was elaborating on the president’s own assertion,” he said.

From Washington Post • Feb. 14, 2017

I was elaborating a theory that after a disaster, a certain kind of information—superficial but not strictly trivial—bubbles up as soft news, in Styles and other “women’s sections.”

From Slate • Nov. 12, 2012

In one seminar, while other students were struggling with a complex theorem that an academician was elaborating on a blackboard, Lawrence pointed out an error that the lecturer had made.

From Time Magazine Archive

But the marchers were unable to continue when about 5,000 spectators jammed the street in front of the hotel where John son was elaborating on his summit-based hopes for world peace.

From Time Magazine Archive

I was elaborating upon my “legend” consistently and Luzan accepted my pathologies.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee