expostulate
Example Sentences
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He often stops on his way into and out of the proceedings, which cameras can’t film, to expostulate and to cast various developments as victories.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 6, 2023
They have come out of their way to find a doctor—not for themselves but as a useful addendum to Sanditon’s delights, upon which Parker likes to expostulate, to the exclusion of every other theme:
From The New Yorker • Mar. 5, 2017
Her fellow workers first expostulate and then copy her.
From The Guardian • Feb. 10, 2013
One time after he had acquired a C�zanne, he presented it to his seminar and began to expostulate on its form.
From Time Magazine Archive
Why merely say something, when they can declare, assert, expostulate, announce, or asseverate it?
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
