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Example sentences for "digression"

Lexicographically close words:
digraph; digraphs; digress; digressed; digressing; digressions; digressive; digs; digue; dihedral
  1. But to return from this digression to the subject of the instruments, of which several belonging to the same class as Fig.

  2. This I made lead to a digression on the war in the Caucasus and German propaganda there.

  3. He jumped from digression to digression, slashing right and left, forward and back, twirling his ideas about and knocking heads down everywhere in the craze of a wholesale assault.

  4. Boerzell agreed completely and by a clever digression he brought the conversation back to the social rôle of love.

  5. As extending the use of lamp black and permanent pigments in general, this brief digression on Autotypography may be pardoned in a treatise on colours.

  6. I trust the moral of my digression is obvious.

  7. This digression is worked out more fully in the 36th Chapter of the Supplement.

  8. We here make a slight digression to show that this feeling extends beyond the Shía'h sect, and is of some importance in its bearing upon the Eastern Question.

  9. This, however, is a digression from the subject of this chapter.

  10. Now this digression is not equal but near the A†quinoxial intersections, it is right and greater, near the Solstices more oblique and lesser.

  11. A Digression of the wisdom of God in the site and motion of the Sun, 313 6.

  12. Digression at Caroline Street: History of the Early Press, 258 " XX.

  13. We now return from our digression into Richmond and Adelaide Streets, and again proceed on our way westward.

  14. We now return from our digression southward at Bay Street.

  15. After this digression the reader can no longer be perplexed, if the Bouse's behavior toward Gustavus is neither sincere nor dissembled, but both.

  16. It is not a digression to talk of bawds in a discourse upon wenches.

  17. I may example my digression by some mighty precedent.

  18. Defn: A dissertation or digression appended to a work, and containing a more extended exposition of some important point or topic.

  19. But all this is a digression from the progress of our narrative of the advent of The Romany Rye.

  20. He breaks in with a digression of a pastoral character.

  21. Then the writer, before giving the full interpretation of Christ's high priesthood, makes a digression to urge the need of greater spiritual insight on the part of his readers (v.

  22. A digression to urge the readers to advance; the writer's hope for the Hebrews, God's blessing is assured (v.

  23. This little digression should explain why Angela and Madame Bernard never quite understood each other, in spite of the elder woman's almost motherly love for the girl and the latter's devoted gratitude.

  24. A digression is always a liberty which the story-teller takes with his readers, and those of us have the fewest readers who make the most digressions; hence the little old-fashioned civility of apologising for them.

  25. Yet I cannot avoid a digression upon a matter of much obscurity relating to the authorship of that book.

  26. The treatise, as he first planned it (according to this hypothesis), has a passionate digression upon the exile of the Alberti, followed by a declamation against public life and politicians.

  27. It was over this that our route had originally been outlined, but our spirit of adventure led us into the digression I have tried to describe.

  28. But this digression has taken me so far away from Penzance that I may as well close this chapter with it.

  29. It illustrates the risk often attending a digression into byroads not listed in the road-book, for England is a country of many hilly sections.

  30. But this is a Digression from the intended Subject of my Letter.


  31. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "digression" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    aberration; bend; bias; bypass; byway; circling; circuit; circularity; circulation; circumlocution; corner; crook; curve; declination; deflection; departure; detour; deviation; digression; discursion; divergence; diversion; double; drift; episode; errantry; excursion; gyre; hairpin; indirection; meandering; nonconformity; orbit; orbiting; rambling; roundabout; sheer; shift; shifting; sidetrack; skew; slant; spiral; spiraling; squint; straying; sweep; swerve; swerving; swinging; tack; turn; turning; twist; vagary; variation; veer; wandering; warp; zigzag