| Filtered through his camera lens, the story veers off on eccentric tangents. |
| Also curve joining the tangents of each line of thrust, drawn relative to the vessel, is known as the curve of metacentres. |
| Rebecca and Lydia continued talking, going off on random tangents and never returning to the main subject. |
| Nevertheless the apparent trajectory of an element in the ultramicroscope is not a curve without tangents. |
| Otherwise, people will start going off on different tangents, and you can't have that. |
| He raised his wobbly voice and began talking in tangents about why he wrote the article. |
