Example Sentences

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The novels meander discursively through time, so it does not matter where one begins.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025

Throughout this discursively soulful book runs a series of interconnected questions: Why did I make it when so many others didn’t?

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 12, 2024

But discursively, conversationally, verbally, at some semantic level, she remained my mom.

From Salon • May 9, 2022

It ventures discursively, “Hedwig” style, through hilarious stories and moving fables, some of which Mitchell draws from his own life and transmutes, miraculously, into a weird and wonderful alloy.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 21, 2019

I began, somewhat discursively, by showing how much care the masters of my art gave even in past days to matters of diet and modes of life.

From Doctor and Patient by Mitchell, S. Weir (Silas Weir)