Object

• scripture: He believed that expounding the scriptures was the only thing God wanted done.

• doctrine: This work is an extensive series of lectures given to new believers expounding the principle doctrines of the faith.

• virtue: A Degree of Imagination John Robert Brown expounds the virtues of a BA in busking.

• thesis: But she did little to expound a contrary thesis for my understanding.

• theory: When I first expounded this theory at a workshop in Switzerland, I was forty years old.

• principle: These are disconcerting discoveries " given the principles expounded in the reform " .

Preposition: on

• theme: Here he expounded on mystical themes and attracted many people to himself.

• subject: Julie picked me up at about nine fifteen to drive me home, and got to listen to me drunkenly expounding on various subjects.

• importance: He expounds on the importance of non-violence as a path toward world harmony, and how developing altruism in oneself makes us happier.

Preposition: at

• length: These views he expounded at enormous length in the British Statesman, of which he was editor from June to December 1842.

Adjective complement

• blind: In the evening I expounded blind Bartimeus, to as genteel an audience as I have ever seen.

Modifying Another Word

• clearly: This seed is a Person whose being is clearly expounded in this passage.

• fully: Professor Chomsky's views will be expounded more fully in an exclusive interview to be published in a forthcoming issue of The X Factor.

• here: I shall nevertheless have to proceed to the area of theory in order to deal with the theories expounded here.

• so: Article XX says you must not, " so expound one place of Scripture that it be repugnant to another.

• first: An idea first expounded by Darwin in On The Origin of Species.

• then: The Bible tells us about His life, mentioning what He said and did, and then expounds these teachings for the world today.

Followed by an intransitive particle

• upon: Exterior as well as interior worship are expounded upon by his Holiness.

Used with why or when

• what: Now I am not going to even attempt to expound what it means for God to be light.

Preposition: in

• book: He is the risen Lord expounded in these books and in finding him our hearts should be refreshed and refined.