VERB
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lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking
Don't digress when you give a lecture
her mind wanders
She always digresses when telling a story
How To Use divagate In A Sentence
- Thence to the "40 Years of GenCon: The Attendees" panel, at which Robin asked me to divagate, in my role as comparative smellologist, on the smells of Milwaukee vs. Kenneth Hite's Journal
- But if you're planning to be at Dragonmeet, in addition to doing proper obeisance to the mighty robin_d_laws, and buying a Rare Preprint of our new Trail of Cthulhu adventure book, Shadows Over Filmland, and watching us divagate on GMing Tips and Investigative Game Design in seminars, and playing wonderful other games run by wonderful other people, ask me about Iowa State A&M. Kenneth Hite's Journal
- This sally was the upshot of a long preliminary discussion, in which, for more than a quarter of an hour, Andrea had divagated in the upper sphere of metaphysics, with the ease of a somnambulist walking over the roofs. Gambara
- It is true that they were steps that lingered, divagated, and mounted with the deliberation natural to one past sixty whose arms, moreover, are full of leaves and blossoms; but they came on steadily, and soon a tap of laurel boughs against the door arrested Katharine's pencil as it touched the page. Night and Day
- My rationale for preparing so detailed a schema rests on (a) my proclivity to divagate and lose focus, (2) the high valuation I put on transitions and continuity, and (iii) the importance of strong, clear, explicit thesis sentences for an audience to orient itself. Akma
- He divagated into the field of literature.
- Owen's thoughts divagated suddenly, and he thought of the pain Harding would experience were he suddenly flung into Bohemian society. Sister Teresa
- So does a child's balloon divagate upon the currents of the air, and touch, and slide off again from every obstacle. Across the Plains: With Other Memories and Essays
- But when they had sat down, Julius was little inclined to divagate into an account of his travels. Master of His Fate
- Others have divagated at length on the accuracy of these particular statements, and I will leave that task to them.
