expound
verb (used with object)
to set forth or state in detail.
was expounding
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past progressiveof expound.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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It was December 2017, more than a year after Kobe Bryant had retired from basketball, and the Lakers great was expounding upon a fundamental truth of parenthood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2020
Wilkins was expounding his tremendous scheme for universal volunteering.
From Mr. Britling Sees It Through by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
In the sea of faces upturned to him, the speaker read a cold response, the opinions he was expounding being exceedingly unpopular, and rarely expressed in those days.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
In the golden age of Rosa Bonheur's "The Horse Fair," he was expounding the principles of the post-impressionists.
From A Book of Prefaces by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken
Still, he did not need to declame; when he was merely sitting at the hotel table, talking about the weather, she listened as though he was expounding the gospel.
From The Romance of the Canoness A Life-History by Paul Heyse
