Thesaurus / expound
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
He went so far as to sketch for Franco the outlines of a letter to his wife, with a list of the arguments he must expound.
THE PATRIOTANTONIO FOGAZZARO
Its true meaning is indicated by that of its root, darash,54 to study, to expound.
JEWISH LITERATURE AND OTHER ESSAYSGUSTAV KARPELES
Among the first was that of Bologna, where Pepo began to expound the law in 1075.
CATHEDRAL CITIES OF ITALYWILLIAM WIEHE COLLINS
The French author makes dame Pinte, the hen, expound the dream to her husband and warn him of the danger which lies before him.
CHAUCER AND HIS TIMESGRACE E. HADOW
Purvey says, "Men might expound much openlier and shortlier the Bible than the old doctors have expounded it in Latin."
EARLY THEORIES OF TRANSLATIONFLORA ROSS AMOS
Let no man attempt to define the post or expound the office of the “terrible sons and daughters.”
WILLIAM BLAKEALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE
The doctrine is old to us, but it was not so in Burke's time, and it required courage to expound it.
BURKE'S SPEECH ON CONCILIATION WITH AMERICAEDMUND BURKE
Well, I have been remiss, I own: but I will expound another time the reasons why you saw us not oftener.
IT MIGHT HAVE BEENEMILY SARAH HOLT
He continued thus to expound St. Matthew, according to the original Greek.
HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY, VOL 2J. H. MERLE D'AUBIGN
No one is better prepared than yourself to expound public matters.
A DREAM OF EMPIREWILLIAM HENRY VENABLE
WORDS RELATED TO EXPOUND
- call
- characterize
- chronicle
- communicate
- construe
- convey image
- define
- delineate
- depict
- detail
- distinguish
- draw
- elucidate
- epitomize
- exemplify
- explicate
- expound
- express
- illuminate
- illustrate
- image
- impart
- interpret
- label
- limn
- make apparent
- make clear
- make sense of
- make vivid
- mark out
- name
- narrate
- outline
- paint
- particularize
- picture
- portray
- recite
- recount
- rehearse
- relate
- report
- represent
- sketch
- specify
- state
- tell
- term
- trace
- transmit
- write up
- call
- characterize
- chronicle
- communicate
- construe
- convey image
- define
- delineate
- depict
- detail
- distinguish
- draw
- elucidate
- epitomize
- exemplify
- explicate
- expound
- express
- illuminate
- illustrate
- image
- impart
- interpret
- label
- limn
- make apparent
- make clear
- make sense of
- make vivid
- mark out
- name
- narrate
- outline
- paint
- particularize
- picture
- portray
- recite
- recount
- rehearse
- relate
- report
- represent
- sketch
- specify
- state
- tell
- term
- trace
- transmit
- write up
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