elaborate explanation

Example Sentences

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And the less elaborate explanation you offer, the better.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 8, 2025

I won’t go into an elaborate explanation here, but sympathy and solidarity are qualities that people do need.

From New York Times • Jan. 6, 2022

The second promises the same thing, without his rival’s elaborate explanation.

From Washington Post • Apr. 18, 2017

Anxious to contextualise this shocking revelation, I launched into an elaborate explanation, until I glanced in the mirror again.

From The Guardian • Apr. 9, 2016

Here the vigorous diver began an elaborate explanation which we will spare the reader, and which his pupils evidently did not comprehend, though they smiled with ineffable sweetness and listened with close attention.

From Under the Waves Diving in Deep Waters by Pearson, Francis B.