digressive
Example Sentences
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Tolerant readers will delight in the digressive nature of this inventive book, though others may be disoriented by a story that drastically switches gears before concluding.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
Wildly digressive, buzzing with literary allusions and telling its story as a 20th-century Shakespearean tragedy, the book has some of the mad, restless energy of Sellers himself.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026
Lily Tomlin, Parton’s “9 to 5” co-star, gave a delightful, digressive introduction.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 17, 2025
However, it appears that the 79-year-old president mixed up the two men when telling one of his digressive stories, this time about Ted Kaczynski, aka the Unabomber.
From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2025
The Lettre sur les sourds et muets, however, is substantially a digressive examination of some points in aesthetics.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" by Various
