How to Use propound in a Sentence

propound

verb

• Her new book expands upon the theory propounded in her first book.
• Gewen has every right to propound that view in his own books and essays.
  — Jim Sleeper, The New Republic, 13 Aug. 2020
• In short, the world Devo propounded is all around us, and Mothersbaugh, 55, is providing the soundtrack.
  — Robert Levine, WIRED, 1 May 2006
• The minority view, propounded by Dr. Hoyle and subscribed to in part by the Burbidges, is known as steady-state theory.
  — Margalit Fox, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2020
• In it, Socrates propounds his theory of love, introducing the concept of Platonic love, which formed the basis of his theory of ideal forms.
  — Jamie James, WSJ, 17 May 2019
• In the case of reparations, this would mean Democrats propounding an idea even more unpopular than Mr Trump’s policy of tearing migrant children from their parents.
  — The Economist, 29 June 2019
• According to Bob especially tough to take was his hook-line-and-sinker acceptance of the familiar fundamentalist litany, and his smugness in propounding it.
  — Ron Hart, Billboard, 20 Dec. 2017
• Such an expression is interpreted to be a desire to utilize the grievance process as opposed to the solution propounded by the administration.
  — Nicole Blanchard, idahostatesman, 28 Feb. 2018
• Blowback to the post-Trump majority’s provocations, on and off the court, has spooked even the right-wing justices themselves, enough to propound public defenses of their bona fides as stewards of an independent judiciary.
  — Simon Lazarus, The New Republic, 27 Sep. 2022
• But while millions have read unsupported theories propounded in dark corners of the internet, some have been prompted to act violently.
  — Ali Watkins, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2019
• The Harvard scholar has in recent years been famous for his clash of civilizations thesis, propounded in 1993, which the recent struggle between the West and militant Islam vindicated.
  — Robert D. Kaplan, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2018
• This equation of divine and political power runs counter to the American principle of the separation of church and state, and propounds an elitist, even totalitarian view of politics.
  — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 14 Aug. 2019
• But the late-nineteenth-century American upper class largely delighted in the philosophy propounded by the Englishman Herbert Spencer: that the millionaire was not a conniving brute but a product of natural selection.
  — Doug Henwood, Harper's magazine, 28 Oct. 2019
• Barr embraced modernism as a series of intellectual principles, propounded like a science in pedagogical charts.
  — Jason Farago, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2017
• The once-obscure Goldwater rule, propounded by the American Psychiatric Association in 1973 to prevent reckless speculation by psychiatrists about public figures, has become a flashpoint.
  — Leonard L. Glass, STAT, 28 June 2018
• Before Albert Einstein propounded his theory of relativity in the early 20th century, it was assumed that matter could ultimately be broken down into indivisible indestructible parts.
  — Harish Pullanoor, Quartz India, 18 Dec. 2019

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024