expound

in a sentence

"See, fellows, there's a system to getting out of work," T.J. was expounding as I sat down.  (source) Mildred D. Taylor, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, 1976

Excuse me for expounding.  (source) Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow, 2016

Atticus was expounding upon farm problems when Walter interrupted to ask if there was any molasses in the house.  (source) Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960

Then he begins to expound just whereabouts in France the breakthrough must come,  (source) Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front, 1929

Several nights a week, after Mr. Jones was asleep, they held secret meetings in the barn and expounded the principles of Animalism to the others.  (source) George Orwell, Animal Farm, 1945

In their confusion and fear, these doubters now seemed to be turning to the only other explanation available to them: the one that Harry and Dumbledore had been expounding since the previous year.  (source) J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2003

St. Augustine expounds the cloven hoof as symbolic of right conduct, because it does not easily slip, and the chewing of the cud as signifying the meditation of wisdom.†  (source) Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy - Volume 2 (Purgatory), 1320

Should not a magistrate be not merely the best administrator of the law, but the most crafty expounder of the chicanery of his profession, a steel probe to search hearts, a touchstone to try the gold which in each soul is mingled with more or less of alloy?†  (source) Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo, 1846

George W. Norris and Robert A. Taft, whose careers in the Senate overlapped for only a brief period some seventeen years ago, were masters of the Legislative process, leaders of fundamentally opposed political factions, and expounders, each in his own way, of great Constitutional doctrines.†  (source) John F. Kennedy, Profiles in Courage, 1955

The Sophists took money for their more or less hairsplitting expoundings, and sophists of this kind have come and gone from time immemorial.†  (source) Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World, 1991

And when you leave here," his thumb and forefinger curled expoundingly, "take yourself home, sit long in the privy and you'll have a clearer brow."†  (source) Henry Roth, Call It Sleep, 1934

My immediate purpose is to place before the world, plainly, succinctly, and without comment, a series of mere household events. In their consequences, these events have terrified--have tortured--have destroyed me. Yet I will not attempt to expound them.  (source) Edgar Allan Poe, The Black Cat, 1850

Of course, you may retort, as did Mr Graham whenever I expounded such a line during those enjoyable discussions by the fire, that if I am correct in what I am saying, one could recognize a great butler as such only after one had seen him perform under some severe test.†  (source) Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day, 1989