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

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 Emerson, Edwin

The Farmers' Alliance was spreading like wildfire, and its members were expounding doctrines which seemed rank treason to the elderly gentlemen whose influence had once been so potent.

From The New South A Chronicle of Social and Industrial Evolution by Thompson, Holland