expatiate

It’s all there in the Reuters reporting, and there is no need to expatiate on the obvious immorality of the operation, quite apart from its colossal stupidity.

From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2024

Do not be afraid to expatiate on all the ways you are a bigger person — there are probably lots!

From Washington Post ● Jul. 23, 2020

We took long walks in the botanical garden in the Bronx, where he could expatiate on every species of fern.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 26, 2017

Did Mr. Isherwood also see these plays and respond similarly? — drjp1025, Los Angeles Ben Brantley: I said pretty much what I wanted to say in those reviews, though you can always expatiate, I suppose.

From New York Times ● May 2, 2013

It was suddenly cool to know stuff, to expatiate on the causes of the Spanish Civil War.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

Groucho expatiated on Lear’s relationship to his daughters.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 25, 2014

Scraping the last few grains around our truffle-oily plates with our forks, Harris and I mournfully expatiated on the declining status of the London cab trade.

From New York Times ● Nov. 28, 2012

Nominee Hoover expatiated statistically upon the country's prosperity, pointed to the vanishing poorhouse, promised, with God's help, to "banish poverty from this nation."

From Time Magazine Archive

As a freshman, he expatiated on an assigned English essay subject: "Status Symbols."

From Time Magazine Archive

When the baron expatiated upon the superior practices of Europe, the Indians were baffled.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

When the question is general enough, they move quickly from answering it to expatiating on general themes.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 15, 2015

Roundly expatiating on the merits of his own sitters, John once took Davidson to task for being less concerned with the intellectually than the financially great.

From Time Magazine Archive

Afterward, he would conduct a prayer meeting, invoking Hindu, Muslim and Christian texts while expatiating on, among other things, the potency of nonviolence.

From Time Magazine Archive

She was receiving new guests, richly furred and motor-veiled ladies who had come in from the country and were expatiating over the beauties of the red lacquer cabinets, Gwendolen's latest acquisitions.

From The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece by Anne Douglas Sedgwick

She went on, in her soft, feeble tones, expatiating upon Mrs. Yellam's many virtues and excellencies.

From The Soul of Susan Yellam by Horace Annesley Vachell