How to Use digression in a Sentence

digression

noun

• This is a bit of a digression, which just occurred to me.
  — JSTOR Daily, 19 Nov. 2025
• Ok, that was a digression, but some of you as parents feel me on that.
  — Marshall Shepherd, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2021
• The book’s many digressions are keyed to the rhythm of footfall.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2019
• Trump’s digressions in his speeches could be laughed away in his first term.
  — Susan B. Glasser, New Yorker, 10 Apr. 2025
• The coffee shop had been a nice little digression, but that hadn’t turned out so well.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 9 Feb. 2018
• The logic of those conditions is clear, but not worth the digression here.
  — New York Times, 18 Sep. 2019
• And yet the real magic here lies not in narrative but in the digressions.
  — Karen D'souza, The Mercury News, 15 Jan. 2024
• The answer to the above question requires a digression, or at least a pivot.
  — John Tamny, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
• But first, let’s address the facts of the president's digression.
  — Jamelle Bouie, Slate Magazine, 2 May 2017
• The core of this book, stripping away the weird digressions, is about how society makes monsters.
  — Paula L. Woods, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2026
• The reasoning for this apparent digression, oddly, strikes at the heart of the court case.
  — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 11 May 2021
• The digressions, detours, and false starts slowly become the real subject of the book.
  — Erik Pedersen, Oc Register, 16 June 2026
• The novel is made of math equations, lengthy jokes, digressions in Yiddish, and a whole lot of language play.
  — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 2 June 2026
• Please forgive these digressions.
  — Literary Hub, 21 June 2016
• But each polite knockback and odd digression throws out at least one casually sublime spark.
  — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 17 Aug. 2025
• Gould revisits Roth a few times, each one offering a choice digression about the treasures in the morgue.
  — Jane Horwitz, The Denver Post, 24 May 2017
• These digressions are absorbing but all too brief, as Bascomb hurries to the next starting line.
  — Nick Donofrio, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2020
• The pace is brisk – there’s a whole game to cover – but the series still makes time for occasional digression from the central plot.
  — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 15 Jan. 2023
• Lots of time has passed and many digressions away from theater have encompassed Haley’s career.
  — David John Chávez, The Mercury News, 18 Feb. 2025
• The powerful aspects of the content are thus offset by detours and digressions that could have been excised.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 26 Feb. 2020
• Some might even ask if the demand for flat prices is an implicit acknowledgement of the error, but that’s a digression.
  — John Tamny, Forbes.com, 1 June 2025
• The minor key digressions of the third movement are early examples of Mozart whistling in the graveyard.
  — Christian Hertzog, sandiegouniontribune.com, 10 June 2018
• Streisand speaks in a conversational tone full of digressions – most appear in print, but some were ad-libbed for the audiobook.
  — Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Dec. 2023
• The play is stacked with laugh lines and Greenberg’s deliciously writerly digressions.
  — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 10 Feb. 2026
• Yarvin tends to extreme digression, while Land speaks with the allusive compression of a guru.
  — James Duesterberg, New Yorker, 18 Feb. 2026
• But the pros and cons of these specific policies are really outside the scope of this book, and as a result these sections feel like a digression.
  — Robert Verbruggen, National Review, 17 Sep. 2020
• The prose is hypnotic, all the more so for its many digressions and parentheses, unveiling tiny set pieces like so many Fabergé eggs.
  — Literary Hub, 13 May 2026
• There are a few digressions to impecunity and infomercials, but the bulk of the show is Cher sings and dresses well.
  — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 7 Mar. 2024
• Along the way, we are treated to wonderful digressions into the lives of 20th century artists.
  — Kathleen Hirsch, BostonGlobe.com, 29 June 2018
• Posner axes an act and boils the cast down to seven, a choice commented on by actors in one of many chatty digressions with the audience.
  — Andrea Simakis, cleveland.com, 13 Sep. 2019