digressive

Example Sentences

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The long, digressive rural idyll “NN” follows a sophisticated city dweller’s return to the village of his childhood country house.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

Lily Tomlin, Parton’s “9 to 5” co-star, gave a delightful, digressive introduction.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 17, 2025

But while the bloody rites of the original Euripides are at the heart of the tale, this version is so relentlessly digressive and irreverent that it plays more like parody than tragedy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 15, 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

But I am growing at once prosy and digressive.

From Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis by Davies, Charles Maurice