digress

Example Sentences

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I digress, though: This is a column about what is popular, not what is right and wrong!

From Slate • Jun. 24, 2025

Many highly esteemed novels contain stretches that stumble, lumber and digress, with such “fat” either pardoned in the larger context of the meal or praised as authorial swagger.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2023

He also lives in multiple homes and has his own private jet — but I digress.

From Salon • Sep. 7, 2023

But I digress — this is supposed to be a positive column.

From Seattle Times • May 3, 2023

And Small Islanders eager to say their ancestry is “mixed”? But we must not digress.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie