1The professor's divagation on the history of linguistics, though fascinating, left many students struggling to follow the main argument.
2Is it possible to distinguish between a deliberate rhetorical device and a genuine divagation in a writer's style?
3The novelist's tendency towards divagation made her novels feel more like collections of loosely connected vignettes than cohesive narratives.
4Avoid divagation in your academic writing by using clear headings and transitional phrases to guide the reader through your argument.
5There is a fine line between creative divagation and self-indulgent rambling; the best writers know how to walk this tightrope with ease.