Sentence examples for number digression from inspiring English sources

Gains were reported as a positive number; digression was reported as a negative number.

This experimental novel takes the form of a brilliant series of numbered digressions on parachute accidents, Lévi-Strauss, hub airports, and many other things.

But it's sandwiched between two lesser stories and any number of digressions on war finances or dog training.

If White is less adventurous and original than Garry Wills, whose book on the Gettysburg Address sets the standard for such analysis, he nonetheless has a number of interesting digressions into the background of Lincoln's oratory (the astonishing number of Bibles printed during the war, for example).

Finally, he dispersed a number of fairly long digressions, self-standing essays in their own right, in which, in which he generally rehearsed the gamut of his trademark views on grammar, arithmology, and astrology.

A number of flagrant, if delicious, digressions from protocol were in evidence.

Finally, a digression on how the number of T-shaped fin assembly affects the configuration patterns concludes the paper.

But I digress (from my digression).

One of the supreme achievements of 19th-century mathematics was the prime number theorem, and it is worth a brief digression.

There is much digression and a bit of pontificating.

DIGRESSION: Anyone who can figure out why the three Rules cited above are named and numbered as they have been is invited to send us the answers.