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

Wildly digressive, buzzing with literary allusions and telling its story as a 20th-century Shakespearean tragedy, the book has some of the mad, restless energy of Sellers himself.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 17, 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

They were simply digressive, which was to be expected, as elation befogs one's "goal idea."

From A Mind That Found Itself An Autobiography by Beers, Clifford Whittingham