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

First, however, he had insisted upon having his cabled instructions from the Son-of-Heaven minutely double-checked by cable while he expatiated in Burlington House upon the loveliness of Chinese Art.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Dr. Trefusis expatiated at somewhat galling length upon my achievements; which accolades Lord Dunmore received with kind pleasure, saying, “Faith, excellent! Excellent! You are brave boys, all of you.”

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

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

From Washington Post ● Sep. 15, 2015

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

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

Before I could make any reply the Major was shaking a hand of either of us, rapturously expatiating over his good luck at meeting us.

From Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II by Edmund Downey

The Archbishop was rambling through some shrubberies accompanied by two submissive and expectant clergymen, and he was expatiating upon the merits of mushrooms—his most recent hobby.

From Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. I by Edmund Downey