were expounding
- past progressive of expound.
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
In Italy meanwhile the pseudo-platonism which Ficino and Bembo were expounding, omitted any interference with it.
From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Saltus, Edgar
The workings of Braddock's mind were as plain to Jenison as if the man were expounding them by word of mouth.
From The Rose in the Ring by McCutcheon, George Barr
