Euripides, by appealing to the nobler feelings which are outraged by war; you, by expatiating on the animal enjoyments which accompany peace.
Her eloquence was never tired of expatiating on his purity and rectitude.
The Scriptures refrain intentionally from expatiating upon the prowess of the miscreant.
Ahab visited him in a dream, and reproached him with expatiatingon the first half of the verse to the exclusion of the latter half.
Papillon ran and skipped at her father's side, clinging to him, expatiating upon her sufferings in the dust and darkness.
Hyacinth is never weary of expatiating upon your devotion in that perilous time.
One of them, as he approached a lamp post, took his hat off, and began expatiating to the others on its quality.
Our Lancashire Socialist friend, expatiating upon the theme to some of his working-men comrades, began to speculate how he would occupy his spare time when in the enviable position of having thirty shillings per week without working.
In the middle of the mean time, I was expatiating to Mungo on what taste it would have, and how he had never seen anything finer than it would be, when in ran Benjie, all out of breath, and his face as pale as a dishclout.
Albert was constantly expatiating on their good fortune in meeting such a man.
Indiscretion,--oh, you make us happy by giving us an excuse for expatiating on this subject.
We wereexpatiating upon your treachery, your ingratitude, and your vices; and the subject was a copious one.
Without confining myself to the order of time, without expatiating on the detail of events, I shall present a general picture of the progress of their arms; I.
Without expatiating on the victories of thirty-five campaigns; without describing the lines of march, which he repeatedly traced over the continent of Asia; I shall briefly represent his conquests in, I.
The captain was on the bow, expatiatingto a crowd of listeners on the fertility of the soil and the salubrity of the climate.
The poor fellow was so faithful and devoted, and never ceased expatiating with tears in his eyes on the far niente life he had enjoyed, with so much good living, at the Embassy of Pekin.
A man could drink four times as much as the milksops nowadays can swallow; but 'tis useless expatiating on this theme.
In expatiating on the subject of the Gipsy race always being the Gipsy race, I have had it remarked to me: "Suppose Gipsies should not mention to their children the fact of their being Gipsies.
I shook hands with him, and began expatiating on the impertinence of people's not enquiring down stairs whether we were at home or not before they came up--I don't believe he took my idea.
One must not think of Yudushka as a hypocrite in the sense of Tartuffe, for instance, or some modern French bourgeois, mellifluous and fond of expatiating on "the foundations of society.
While Yudushka was expatiating on various subjects, the thought entered her mind at shorter and shorter intervals, "What if I should really curse him?
This gave Mr. Binney the opportunity he wanted of expatiating on the prestige to be gained by membership of a good college, and a wide circle of distinguished athletic acquaintances.
She was the theme on which he was expatiating to Mrs. Jermyn while the conversations already recorded were going on around him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "expatiating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
