parenthetic
Example Sentences
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That nearly 100-year-old publication instructs sentence drafters to “enclose parenthetic expressions between commas” and to “place a comma before and or but introducing an independent clause.”
From Slate • Jan. 28, 2014
Sir: The clue to their success is tucked unobtrusively into one parenthetic expression that you use: "Russian is more precisely phonetic than English."
From Time Magazine Archive
Unluckily I am ignorant of the very rudiments of the matter, so his parenthetic enthusiasms were lost upon me.
From Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 3 (of 3) Essay 2: The Death of Mr Mill - Essay 3: Mr Mill's Autobiography by Morley, John
Both of them are frankly parenthetic; both parentheses are superfluous; neither has any incidental beauty to redeem it; and, above all, we may be sure that Pippa did not think in parentheses.
From Browning's Heroines by Armfield, Maxwell
The position of an adverb is, in respect to matters of syntax, pre-eminently parenthetic; i.e., it may be omitted without injuring the construction.
From A Handbook of the English Language by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)
