digressive

Example Sentences

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The book is by turns brilliant, provocative, digressive and dull—abounding in talent but confusingly at odds with itself.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026

The movie doesn’t get bogged down in this kind of thing, but it does have a somber air and a looser, more digressive plot than its predecessor.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 20, 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

For fans in the audience, it’s efficient one-stop shopping for what’s happening on today’s Top 40, including SZA’s wonderfully digressive R&B, Benson Boone’s earnest nice-guy balladry, Tate McRae’s neo-Britney dance-pop and Shaboozey’s post-hip-hop country music.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 24, 2024

Sometimes, and especially in vers libre of an emotional and digressive character, the reader has a hideous fear that he has turned over two pages and got into another poem altogether.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 158, June 2, 1920 by Various