divagation

Example Sentences

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En cas de divagation d’un animal vous appartenant, votre responsabilité est fortement engagée.

From The Guardian • Jul. 13, 2021

“Certainly this production does nothing for the art of the ballet, and is a serious divagation from the true course of our most forward-looking company.”

From New York Times • Dec. 3, 2015

There is divagation, fumbling with incidents and words.

From Time Magazine Archive

“I can see that if we allow the slightest divagation on the subject of your charms, we shall never have time to hear the tale of your escape.”

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

But for that unlucky divagation in the Wilderness, his life would have been the life of a man of letters only as far as choice went, with the duties of no dishonourable profession superadded.

From Matthew Arnold by Saintsbury, George