expatiate

Example Sentences

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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