DISCURSIVE in a Sentence

Learn DISCURSIVE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

Example sentences for DISCURSIVE, such as:

1. They were affectionate, humorous, discursive, but not the letters of a lover.
2. As the lecturer wandered from topic to topic, we wondered what if any point there was to his discursive remarks.

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 Meanings and Examples of DISCURSIVE
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discursive
 a.  tending to depart from main point or cover a wide range of subjects
Classic Sentence:
1  I had not got far into it, when I judged from her looks that she was thinking in a discursive way of me, rather than of what I said.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XLIX
2  They were affectionate, humorous, discursive, but not the letters of a lover.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
Example Sentence:
1  As the lecturer wandered from topic to topic, we wondered what if any point there was to his discursive remarks.