Sample Sentences fordigress (editor-reviewed)
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She always digresses when telling a story.digresses = wanders from a direct course
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She likes it when they stick to the numbers and don't digress into storytelling.digress = wander from a direct course
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You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect. (Full disclosure: I am not the first to make this observation...) I digress, but here's the rub: The dead are visible only in the terrible lidless eye of memory. The living, thank heaven, retain the ability to surprise and to disappoint. (source)digress = wander from the main topic
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But I digress. (source)
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But I digress. (source)
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But--I digress, (source)digress = wander off topic
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"All this is a digression," he added in a different tone. (source)digression = not about the main topicstandard suffix: The suffix "-sion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in admission from admit, discussion from discuss, and invasion from invade.
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"By-and-by, when you've got a name, you can afford to digress, and have philosophical and metaphysical people in your novels," said Amy, who took a strictly practical view of the subject. (source)digress = wander from the main topic
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All these digressions, they just screw up your story's sound. (source)digressions = wanderings from the main storylinestandard suffix: The suffix "-sions", converts a verb into a plural noun that denotes results of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in discussions from discuss, explosions from explode, and revisions from revise.
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When the demon digressed into observations about his chef's latest dishes, Max broke in. (source)digressed = wandered off topic
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But I am digressing. (source)digressing = wandering off topic
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The trouble with me is, I like it when somebody digresses. It's more interesting and all. (source)digresses = wanders off topic
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It would be thrown aside as carelessly, whenever he should choose to earn his bread by some other equally digressive means.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ive" converts a word into an adjective; though over time, what was originally an adjective often comes to be used as a noun. The adjective pattern means tending to and is seen in words like attractive, impressive, and supportive. Examples of the noun include narrative, alternative, and detective.
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After this digression he proceeded — "I remained in the balcony." (source)digression = wandering away from the main topic
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I'm so eager to begin that I'm almost reluctant to digress now to your problem, but I'm afraid I must. (source)digress = wander from the main topic
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In describing to her all the grandeur of Lady Catherine and her mansion, with occasional digressions in praise of his own humble abode, and the improvements it was receiving, he was happily employed until the gentlemen joined them; and he found in Mrs. Phillips a very attentive listener, whose opinion of his consequence increased with what she heard, and who was resolving to retail it all among her neighbours as soon as she could. (source)digressions = wanderings off topic
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