discursively
Example Sentences
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The novels meander discursively through time, so it does not matter where one begins.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025
Throughout this discursively soulful book runs a series of interconnected questions: Why did I make it when so many others didn’t?
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2024
But discursively, conversationally, verbally, at some semantic level, she remained my mom.
From Salon ● May 9, 2022
It ventures discursively, “Hedwig” style, through hilarious stories and moving fables, some of which Mitchell draws from his own life and transmutes, miraculously, into a weird and wonderful alloy.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 21, 2019
And so he spoke, discursively and disconnectedly, a little heedless of his listener as wise old men will.
From The History of Mr. Polly by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
