digresses in a sentence
Examples
- The narrator digresses at times, usually to expand on aspects of this social and intellectual world.
- Matthiessen frequently digresses to remember his wife Deborah Love who had died of cancer prior to the adventure.
- Orlean appears to know this and digresses in long passages into several areas suggested by Laroche and his passion.
- The truth is that she is a judicious judge who never digresses from the rules of precedent and legal construction.
- The poem seldom digresses from four-line stanzas with an ABAB rhyming pattern and the use of iambic tetrameter.
- Pausanias digresses from description of architectural and artistic objects to review the mythological and historical underpinnings of the society that produced them.
- Along the way he digresses to enlighten us on such matters as the history of the fork and the genealogy of ice cream.
- He asserts the respect paid by the Welsh to noble ancestry, and digresses into some notes on their farming and fishing practices.
- The story digresses a few more times, to great effect, then Venus shoots a fiery arrow into the fortress and sets it ablaze.
- What had been a dingy, tumbledown interior is now rational, airy and filled with a soft clear light that never digresses into shadow.