Example Sentences

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This was a comfortable spot for him, though he seemed, in a faded red T-shirt with a few holes in the torso, not entirely comfortable there, apologizing often for rambling, pausing, digressing.

From New York Times • Oct. 5, 2022

But when I read it, I realized all the things I thought were my flaws — the digressing, the self-contradiction — in Bernhard that was the writing.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 27, 2022

“The naira is digressing and we are trying to keep the value of the art,” he said, calling crypto “the currency where people don’t think that I am paying too much or too less”.

From Reuters • Oct. 12, 2021

“I’m not comfortable with Goofy Uncle Joe,” Biden said about his trademark casual demeanor, before digressing about the lack of “inherent power in being Vice President.”

From Salon • Apr. 19, 2016

I have a way of digressing, son Adoniah.

From Latitude 19 degree A Romance of the West Indies in the Year of Our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Twenty by Crowninshield, Mrs. Schuyler