digression
Example Sentences
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“I tended toward … a kind of diffuse sallying through the world, staying open to the coincidence, digression, and movement,” she writes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
Now, a brief digression, because I feel strongly about this.
From Salon ● Mar. 5, 2026
The settings—generic spaces such as cafés, train stations, hotel lobbies, and offices—tend to be described with similar brevity, while the detectives’ actions are recounted in prose generally lacking metaphor, simile, or fanciful digression.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
In the telescope’s view, there’s something more subtle but no less staggering lurking, too, which can best be introduced via a slight sky-watching digression.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 20, 2023
We must hasten back on the wings of prose to the factory and its folk, who prompted my rather lengthy digression.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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