digress

“The Madman’s Guide” has no chapter headings but many signposts such as “to digress further” and “at last to return to.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

If David Nihill was a philosopher, his credo might be “I digress, therefore I am.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2026

If we really want to talk about moral failings, perhaps we should ask predatory lenders to join the chat—but I digress.

From Slate ● Mar. 28, 2024

That may be going a bit too far, but I digress.

From Salon ● Feb. 19, 2024

But though I can digress with the best of them, I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

Its narrative offers few character sketches, jumps around in time and digresses into subjects that distract more than they enlighten.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026

He digresses to tell me the story, however, and it’s literally longer than this entire article’s word count.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2026

She pads and digresses; what could be a sentence becomes a paragraph.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 26, 2022

At almost every dramatic moment, Sampson digresses, filling in the picture with background information, some of it fascinating, some annoying.

From New York Times ● Aug. 3, 2018

He then digresses into an apostrophe, O dignity, how dost thou impose upon the world! then returning to himself, Blood, says he, thou art but blood, however concealed with appearances and decorations.

From Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies by Samuel Johnson

And during a meeting in early January with oil and gas executives that was supposed to be about rebuilding Venezuela’s oil industry, Trump apparently digressed yet again into talking about the ballroom.

From Slate ● Apr. 30, 2026

"I am not a Bravo executive, so I don’t think I can speak to this on," she digressed.

From Fox News ● Oct. 14, 2021

Then he digressed, noting, “I know a lot about West Point…. Trust me, I’m like a smart person.”

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 25, 2017

A year later, with four games remaining, the Rams’ offense is basically in the same spot — but with a running game that has digressed from 2015.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2016

But let us return to the point we digressed from.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli

Elliptical, digressing, self-interrupting, parenthesizing, Herzen wrote as he spoke, in a torrent of ideas, reminiscences, and literary and historical allusions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

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

“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

But I am digressing, and the mountain top and the grave are before me, and I am in the forest on my way thither.

From Stevenson's Shrine The Record of a Pilgrimage by Laura Stubbs