How to Use digressive in a Sentence

digressive

adjective

• Waltz’s gift for playing not just brilliant but digressive bad guys pays off here.
  — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2023
• People love her, adore her work and simply can’t get enough of her digressive awards speeches.
  — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2023
• Through all of this, Carmichael’s in complete control of his digressive mind.
  — New York Times, 19 Apr. 2022
• Trump himself has felt obliged to address his digressive rambling.
  — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2024
• Yet, as digressive as its surface seems, an artist’s sense of creative organization is at work.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2024
• Her novel is digressive without feeling showy, sombre yet never maudlin.
  — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 29 Apr. 2022
• Chatty, digressive, and pedantic, the narrator seems to work through a checklist of issues.
  — Kaya Genç, The New Republic, 4 Apr. 2023
• Raven is a natural teacher and an easy, digressive storyteller.
  — Steve Donoghue, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Sep. 2021
• Toyota says these shocks use digressive pistons to balance high-speed stability with low-speed body control.
  — Caleb Miller, Car and Driver, 26 Oct. 2022
• If, occasionally, going down the rabbit hole with Hazel seems digressive, that is all right.
  — Bethanne Patrick, Philly.com, 4 Apr. 2018
• The book is a slim, digressive mystery, in which veteran journalists swap anecdotes about the bizarre case of a corpse that had no business turning up in their town.
  — Noel Murray, The Verge, 27 July 2018
• In return for her weird, digressive, and highly mannered manuscript, Lemann received a kill fee.
  — Brandy Jensen, New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2026
• Wong, 52, is blunt but happily digressive, playful but quite serious.
  — Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2024
• Once Elon settles into the retreat center, the novel changes gears, becomes more digressive and slips into a pattern.
  — John Hildebrand, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 Jan. 2022
• Trump’s speech — low-key, digressive and nearly 90 minutes long — fell flat at times with an otherwise adoring audience.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2021
• The novel explores the mysteries in a wandering, digressive sort of way, as if to recreate the brain-fog that grips the city in its baffling 20 days.
  — Terrence Rafferty, New York Times, 1 June 2017
• Famously, his digressive speeches require deep immersion in right-wing lore to comprehend.
  — Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
• And this haphazard collection of setups, stunts and gags has that same scattershot, digressive energy.
  — Ann Hornaday, kansascity, 14 June 2018
• This is slightly digressive, but Tunde and his lover, early on in the novel, have this big argument in Lahaina, in Hawaii.
  — Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
• Like all Kashian’s work, Alter-Kashian is densely packed, and her breakneck, digressive style doesn’t leave much room to come up for air.
  — Hershal Pandya, Vulture, 30 Mar. 2026
• As Cora discovers, the journey does not always proceed in a straight line, and the digressive nature of the series can be frustrating.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 10 May 2021
• With a playful, digressive style, Moghaddam considers the layers of the hijab and the ways that a dress code both enables and disables self-expression.
  — Akiva Gottlieb, Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb. 2024
• Sporting shoulder-length hair and decked out in a moss green velvet blazer, gingham shirt, and skinny tie, Anderson comes across as unassuming and digressive.
  — Christopher Wallenberg, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Mar. 2018
• The novel is detailed, digressive, densely populated, dull at times (as life is) and capable of tracking the most minute shifts in emotional weather.
  — Alexandra Jacobs, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2025
• The novel is detailed, digressive, densely populated, dull at times (as life is) and capable of tracking the most minute shifts in emotional weather.
  — Mj Franklin, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
• In the pugilistic, digressive arena of a YouTube debate, advocates for the right are just more experienced at getting their point across.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 23 Jan. 2025
• The World in a Selfie is digressive, the chapters like a series of meditations that touch on various aspects of travel and tourism.
  — Sophie Haigney, The New Republic, 9 Mar. 2021
• Where the letters in the book are searching and digressive, written without expectation of an answer, the interview is a formal, real-time exchange.
  — Kamran Javadizadeh, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2021
• The four episodes of this final season provided to critics take steps toward what seems to be a definitive conclusion, but through a typically digressive route.
  — Alison Herman, Variety, 1 Aug. 2023
• There are a lot of amazing books about the Troubles, but many of them are impenetrable because there’s a highly digressive style of telling stories about the Troubles.
  — Ava Kofman, ProPublica, 18 July 2022