EXPOUND in a Sentence

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19 example sentences for EXPOUND, such as:

1. Light a cigar and let me expound.
2. The teachers expound on the theory of relativity for hours.
3. Schmidt continued to expound his views on economics and politics.
4. But my steward has expounded to you the cause of my seeming discourtesy.
5. He expounded traditional Calvinism with its high doctrine of church order.

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 Meanings and Examples of EXPOUND
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expound
 v.  explain or describe in detail
Classic Sentence:
1  "Of a truth, friend, that matter remaineth a riddle; and the Daniel who shall expound it is yet a-wanting," answered the townsman.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In III. THE RECOGNITION
2  I then expounded to Miss Mills what I had endeavoured, so very unsuccessfully, to expound to Dora.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 37. A LITTLE COLD WATER
3  When they rose from the table and the ladies had gone out, Pestsov did not follow them, but addressing Alexey Alexandrovitch, began to expound the chief ground of inequality.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 12
4  And Levin began carefully, as it were, feeling his ground, to expound his views.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 7: Chapter 3
5  But what plays the mischief with this masterly code is the admirable brevity of it, which necessitates a vast volume of commentaries to expound it.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 89. Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish.
6  Light a cigar and let me expound.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY
7  I was already longing to expound the cherished ideas I had brooded over in my corner.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: VI
8  But I am afraid I had a supreme satisfaction, of a personal and professional nature, in taking charge of Mr. Barkis's will, and expounding its contents.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 31. A GREATER LOSS
9  And without letting Levin finish explaining his idea, Metrov began expounding to him the special point of his own theory.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 7: Chapter 3
10  I understand not your allusions about lines and angles; and I leave expounding to those who have been called and set apart for that holy office.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2
11  Professor Simon Newcomb was expounding this to the New York Mathematical Society only a month or so ago.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In I
12  And the celebrated doctor expounded his plan of treatment with Soden waters, a remedy obviously prescribed primarily on the ground that they could do no harm.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 1
13  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.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II
14  But my steward has expounded to you the cause of my seeming discourtesy.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
15  The danger, if any, I expounded, was from our proximity to a great human passion let loose.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In II
Example Sentence:
1  What he has tried to expound in this article bears on a key problem in our economic reform.
2  Schmidt continued to expound his views on economics and politics.
3  The teachers expound on the theory of relativity for hours.
4  He expounded traditional Calvinism with its high doctrine of church order.