Illustration: Along a damp riverside walking path, a small group of schoolchildren continues straight ahead with a supervising adult. One child has wandered sideways onto a narrow grassy spur, absorbed by a frog beside a shallow puddle.

それる

soreru

to digress, to stray

Example sentences

本題ほんだいからそれないようにしましょう。
Let’s not deviate from the subject.
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話はなしがそれた。
The story wandered.
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彼かれの話はなしは本題ほんだいからそれた。
His story departed from his main theme.
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