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Digressions meaning

plural of digression

Using Digressions

  • The main meaning on this page is: plural of digression
  • In the example corpus, digressions often appears in combinations such as: digressions and, digressions or, and digressions.

Context around Digressions

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 22.2 words
  • Position in the sentence: 2 start, 7 middle, 5 end
  • Sentence types: 14 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Corpus analysis for Digressions

  • In this selection, "digressions" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, meandering, baffling, bobita, weighing and anchored stand out and add context to how "digressions" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include after several digressions of thought and all amplifications digressions and swellings. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "digressions" sits close to words such as aat, abhorrence and abms, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with digressions

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

It is free from useless digressions. (6 words)

But he also went on meandering digressions. (7 words)

There aren’t any digressions or repetitions. (7 words)

On the surface, he’s spoofing practical guides (“How to cook the perfect risotto” is the title of one episode), but that’s merely a framework for a multitude of digressions anchored in scenes of New York street life. (39 words)

Sprat regarded "fine speaking" as a disease, and thought that a proper style should "reject all amplifications, digressions, and swellings of style" and instead "return back to a primitive purity and shortness" (History of the Royal Society, 1667). (38 words)

Donald J. Trump has long sprinkled his speeches with baffling digressions — weighing the relative merits of death by electrocution or shark attackcomparing immigrants to the “late, great Hannibal Lecter” — sometimes even turning them into recurring bits. (36 words)

Example sentences (14)

After a crushing decade, Ouologuem returned to Mali, where he remained resolutely silent on the matter, responding to questions about his aborted literary career with digressions or outbursts of anger, refusing even to speak French.

But he also went on meandering digressions.

Donald J. Trump has long sprinkled his speeches with baffling digressions — weighing the relative merits of death by electrocution or shark attackcomparing immigrants to the “late, great Hannibal Lecter” — sometimes even turning them into recurring bits.

Tellingly, these Bobita digressions are presented in gaudy color, a break from the bleakness that surrounds Angela.

I admired the drunkenness of the prose, the digressions and exaltation, the way Dostoevsky wrote as if each page would be his last.

On the surface, he’s spoofing practical guides (“How to cook the perfect risotto” is the title of one episode), but that’s merely a framework for a multitude of digressions anchored in scenes of New York street life.

The author labels these interludes “digressions,” and is well aware of how annoying they come to be.

There aren’t any digressions or repetitions.

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After several digressions of thought he decides to visit Mina Purefoy at the hospital.

It is free from useless digressions.

Sprat regarded "fine speaking" as a disease, and thought that a proper style should "reject all amplifications, digressions, and swellings of style" and instead "return back to a primitive purity and shortness" (History of the Royal Society, 1667).

The detail of his speech borders on the pedantic, a common mark of all his extant works and he goes into long digressions on related matters.

The podcasts specifically captured the creative process that goes into the creation of a Penny Arcade comic, usually starting with a perusal of recent gaming news, with conversational tangents and digressions to follow.

Wagner's frequent interruptions and digressions made rehearsals a very long-winded affair.

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Common combinations with digressions

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "digressions" in a sentence?
An example: "After a crushing decade, Ouologuem returned to Mali, where he remained resolutely silent on the matter, responding to questions about his aborted literary career with digressions or outbursts of anger, refusing even to speak French." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "digressions" from authentic English texts.
What does "digressions" mean?
Digressions means: plural of digression
How many example sentences with "digressions" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "digressions", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.