Sample Sentences for
expound
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    Then he begins to expound just whereabouts in France the breakthrough must come,  (source)
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    "See, fellows, there's a system to getting out of work," T.J. was expounding as I sat down.  (source)
    expounding = explaining in detail
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    Atticus was expounding upon farm problems when Walter interrupted to ask if there was any molasses in the house.  (source)
    expounding = discussing or explaining details
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    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)
    expound = explain or discuss in detail
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    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)
    expounded = explained in detail
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    Excuse me for expounding.  (source)
    expounding = explaining or discussing in detail
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    Asylas on his prow the third appears, Who heav'n interprets, and the wand'ring stars; From offer'd entrails prodigies expounds, And peals of thunder, with presaging sounds.†  (source)
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    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)
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    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)
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    The Sophists took money for their more or less hairsplitting expoundings, and sophists of this kind have come and gone from time immemorial.†  (source)
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    It was one of Gus's favorite themes, and if given a chance he would expound it for hours.†  (source)
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    Spencer expounded about the importance of the fight, the tradition of the December match.†  (source)
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    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)
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