Example sentences for: propounded

How can you use “propounded” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Skeat has thereby been led to attribute to himself entirely a derivation for the word Cambridge which I propounded, both in N. & Q. and in the Athenæum, so far back as 1869.

  • A recent wave theory is that propounded by David Hackett Fisher.

  • There has always been something disturbingly retroactive, after-the-fact, about natural selection as an explanation of life, even when propounded by someone as eloquent as Dawkins.

  • Most recently, he compelled Rupert Murdoch's 20 th Century Fox to put up $35 million for Bulworth and to give him absolute creative control over the film, even though 1) it was a political movie and hence a lousy investment, and 2) it propounded ideas Murdoch detests.

  • Public journalism as propounded by Rosen is so broad and vague, so infused with good intentions and cracked premises, that it melts at first touch.


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