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Example sentences for "digress"

Lexicographically close words:
dignus; dignyte; digo; digraph; digraphs; digressed; digressing; digression; digressions; digressive
  1. And since we have been speaking of quibbling, I shall digress a little to entertain the Reader on that subject.

  2. In order to convey our meaning, let us digress for a moment and bring forth a fitting illustration.

  3. Let us digress for a space, and refer to our chapter on the constellations.

  4. But mark time, as I must digress again for a moment.

  5. And what we say of him is, that he is bent upon destroying yourselves and us by every means in his power.

  6. For while they kept on asserting that it was possible to save the men, the fact still remained that they abandoned them to their fate, set sail, and were gone.

  7. And here I may digress upon a modern feature which applies to all political problems and therefore to this Jewish problem among others.

  8. It now becomes necessary to digress a moment from the thread of my story, and give an accurate description of the persons I beheld around me, the chamber in which we were gathered, and the peculiar mode of instruction pursued by the sages.

  9. I may here digress a little on the subject of night shooting.

  10. As I have said so much about the killer whale, I may digress a little to explain what it is, though it is not a denizen of the Indian seas.

  11. I will digress here for a moment to chronicle, with deep sorrow, the sad fate that ultimately befell the kind and noble surgeon, Maj.

  12. Would that I could digress out of this world altogether!

  13. Would that I could digress to a planet where they have no arithmetic!

  14. Only, don't digress so; don't write a lot of lovely English about clocks and getting up early.

  15. But if you digress too much, I'll go and shoot, and that will finish the correspondence.

  16. It is to be hoped that the character and objects of this work are now sufficiently understood to acquit the writer of any suspicion of a tendency to digress from the iron road of facts into the flowery groves of fanciful speculation.

  17. Therefore all the fire ‭ Blown in the Wooers’ spleens he bade suppress, ‭ And that in hands nor words they should digress ‭ From that set peace his speech did then proclaim.

  18. I digress long enough to say that I have patiently investigated the story of the great orator's flight, and am fully convinced that it was a foul political falsehood, just as the current story of Col.

  19. To digress for a moment, I believe the story of Demosthenes' cowardice as damnable a lie as that relating to Col.

  20. I can not here digress to give proofs, but there is no doubt that the second woe of Revelation (see chap.

  21. Sidenote: The perpetual theocracy] Here I shall digress long enough to point out by way of contrast the true form of divine government.

  22. We shall now digress somewhat in order to discuss nature rites in some detail, as thereby the phallic rites are very readily explained.

  23. In order to show how sex worship as practiced by a later civilization was the expression of an unhealthy tendency, we must digress sufficiently to show the setting in which decadent sex worship existed.

  24. Let me digress here to say a word in reference to Charles Sumner.

  25. To digress for a moment, it is a peculiar coincidence that McKinley made his great reputation, in part, by nominating Mr. Sherman as a candidate for the Presidency in the Minneapolis convention of 1892.

  26. And here let me digress to say a few words in reference to my colleagues on that committee.

  27. And if I may digress for a moment, we also visited the lakes of Killarney of which Moore sang.

  28. I might digress here to say that the respect for life taught in the Hindu scriptures has filled India to excess with useless birds and animals.

  29. Unfortunately its study would lead us to digress too far, and presupposes a more thorough and special knowledge of the subject.

  30. I shall digress for a moment to ask whether you know what is meant by a causal therapy?

  31. To appreciate the full significance of the aforementioned difference between the two groups of instincts, we must digress considerably and introduce a consideration which we must needs call economic.

  32. I will digress here to explain our after-dinner games.

  33. A propos of vanity, in the interests of my publisher I must here digress and relate the two greatest compliments that I ever had paid to me.

  34. Indeed, one may digress and say that we found the whole estate of the press in France rather disenchanting.

  35. It may be well to digress a moment in this narrative, from our purely martial adventure, that we may consider for a few pages the woman question as it is affected by the war.

  36. I digress here to point out that though our quadrators, etc.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "digress" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bend; branch; bypass; curve; depart; detour; deviate; digress; diverge; heel; ramble; sheer; shift; stray; swerve; tack; trend; turn; vary; veer; wander