How To Use Divagate In A Sentence
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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He divagated into the field of literature.
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Owen's thoughts divagated suddenly, and he thought of the pain Harding would experience were he suddenly flung into Bohemian society.
Sister Teresa
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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
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But when they had sat down, Julius was little inclined to divagate into an account of his travels.
Master of His Fate
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Others have divagated at length on the accuracy of these particular statements, and I will leave that task to them.
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The rural afternoon, especially, when he smoked and grubbed and divagated as he pleased, was alone enough to make the five-and-twenty years of "swink" worth while.
The Testing of Diana Mallory
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The article divagates from the second paragraph.
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Willpower he was not acquainted with, lest he would have divagated from his fated path long ago.
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The narrative, prompted by AP's inauguration of another website, and intended as a teasing commentary on this and 'the new creation' theology, as well as non-trinitarian alternatives to Christian orthodoxy and other developments on the (OST) site, might seem to have divagated itself into a non sequitur.
Open source theology - Comments
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Allow me to briefly divagate here on the nonexistence of abortion as an option in Knocked Up.
Feministing: June 2007 Archives
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Well, that seemed to be as good a target to divagate towards as any, so he set off for it.
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Sub-divagate" would be more appropriate since by most definitions, a Diva must actually have a modicum of fame or talent.
HumidCity
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So does a child's balloon divagate upon the currents of the air, and touch and slide off again from every obstacle.
A Book of English Prose Part II, Arranged for Secondary and High Schools
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'But I divagate (I perceive in a thousand ways that I grow old).
Merry Men
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It would be of interest to divagate from literature to politics and inquire to what extent Romanticism is incorporate in Imperialism; to inquire to what extent Romanticism has possessed the imagination of Imperialists, and to what extent it was made use of by Disraeli.
Imperfect Critics
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He passed on to ulsters and raincoats, divagated into the colorful realm of neckwear, debated scarf-pins and cuff-links, visualized patterned shirtings, and emerged to dream of composite sartorial grandeurs which, duly synthesized into a long list of hopeful entries, were duly filed away within the pages of 3 T 9901, the pocket ledger.
Success A Novel
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Sometimes, indeed, it has been shy of it, and has divagated from it in wide circles; but, as soon as it becomes profound and humble again, it always returns.
The Trial and Death of Jesus Christ A Devotional History of our Lord's Passion
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Datta divagates into revolutionary illusions, Indian ‘leftist’ illusions, and its infantile bid for power with violence tactically kept sheatheed.
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The article divagates from the second paragraph.
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And it is my duty to caution you that the estate won't stand it -- to call that an estate, "he divagated, with a kind of despairing sniff," which is already, by the extravagances of your ancestors, shrunken to scarcely more than three acres and a cow.
The Lady Paramount
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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, by Virginia Woolf
