expound
verb (used with object)
to set forth or state in detail.
were 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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But as they were expounding on what their banks were doing concerning climate change, an activist got up and interrupted them.
From Salon ● Apr. 25, 2022
It's a place where, even if Ginsberg were expounding his theories on Buddhism at you, you wouldn't feel bored.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 23, 2010
Lena Home sings Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man and Why Was I Born? with as much careful intensity as if she were expounding existentialism.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was, moreover, as earnest, argumentative, and profoundly wearisome over his project as if he were expounding to an admiring class of students the relations of the Ego and Non-Ego.
From Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by Justin McCarthy
While these historians were expounding the lessons of this great regeneration of France, the Royalists in the Chambers did their best to undo its work.
From A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) by Edwin Emerson
