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.
have been digressing
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present perfect progressiveof digress.present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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Patience till my work is completed, and then you will see that, however much I may seem to have been digressing, I have always kept strictly to the point.
From Daniel Defoe by William Minto
But I have been digressing, and must again return to Kasengé.
From What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile by John Hanning Speke
While we have been digressing, the turtles have been dumped into the great moat that surrounds the fort, and, stretched upon the deck, the sable crew are fast asleep.
From Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 by Various
But to return to the subject from which I have been digressing.
From The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero by Charles Duke Yonge
