digress
verb (used without object)
to deviate or wander away from the main topic or purpose in speaking or writing; depart from the principal line of argument, plot, study, etc.
am digressing
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present progressiveof digress (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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But I am digressing, and leaving poor Cato still uncared for.
From Australian Search Party by Henry Walter Bates
If in a strange wood, and you get separated from him, he will often whinny; but I am digressing.
From Memoirs of Orange Jacobs by Orange Jacobs
But I am digressing, and must return to Old Father Nile, who was in great flood.
From Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland by Joseph Tatlow
But here I am digressing again from Doctor Plausible to Doctor Vance.
From Newton Forster by Frederick Marryat
But I am digressing from my own story, and must return to the intensely happy time of escaping from Rockend and going to Stoke.
From Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 by Augustus J. C. Hare
