Meanings of digress for in English

I beg the reader's pardon if I here digress for a moment.

More on that in a bit, but first let us digress for a moment.

Let us digress for a space, and refer to our chapter on the constellations.

Gentlemen, I would just digress for a moment if I am not tiring you.

But before I get into that, let me digress for a second to set the scene.

Let me digress for a minute.

In order to convey our meaning, let us digress for a moment and bring forth a fitting illustration.

It's really good movie, though I'm troubled by something about it, which I'll digress for 10 seconds to tell you.

I'll return to these later but (given the season that's in it) allow me to digress for a moment.

To digress for a moment, an amusing story is told of Grimaldi, the celebrated clown, when paying a visit to a coal-pit.

To digress for a moment, I believe the story of Demosthenes' cowardice as damnable a lie as that relating to Col. Ingersoll's surrender.

And here we must digress for a moment to correct a popular error, viz., that snuff contains ground glass, put there for titillating purposes.

But here we may digress for the moment, to take a bird's-eye view of matters of grave moment passing in distant quarters of the Confederacy.

Digressing for a moment at this point, to which I shall return again, I look back to the appointment of Mr. Pitt, as minister.

The "Wild West" now moved northward, through the Tyrol, to Munich, and from here the Americans digressed for an excursion on the "beautiful blue Danube."