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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Before he came to the heart of his intentions, Dr. Urbino Daza made several digressions on the subject of aging. (source)digressions = wanderings from the main topic
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