Sentence examples for digressing from from inspiring English sources

"digressing from" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
It means to deviate or wander from the main topic or purpose of a conversation or writing. Example sentence: He often found himself digressing from his original argument, getting caught up in tangential points and losing track of his main point.

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Among the girls, Ms. Dente has long had a reputation for digressing from the subject and then digressing from the digression.

"He is constantly digressing from his own tangent, so he's digressing from a digression".

"It has been given to me to die when the Lord calls me," he said, digressing from his narrative.

He speaks mostly about himself, digressing from anecdotes about his childhood and professional life into more serious confessional territory, though always with reserve and good humor.

He spoke almost exclusively in free associations, digressing from the military to Hedwig and the Angry Inch to Pete Townshend in a fractured if enthusiastic rhythm.

But we are digressing from the horror at hand: With Mr. Burroughs's Battery Park building now in receivership, its creditor, Anglo Irish Bank, has begun foreclosure proceedings against its developer.

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"Therefore, in the end, no digression can digress from the subject: in Sterne's novel, digression is impossible".

But I digress (from my digression).

The allegory itself was of little importance to him; the famous "Confession" of Nature (one of the characters in the poem) digressed from the narrative for some 3,500 verses, yet it was such digressions that secured the poem's reputation.

Let's digress from anything ending in -ession.

Ironically, we had just digressed from the agenda, to speak about disaster preparedness for 2010.

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