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

The style is somewhat too pompous, being more that of the orator than of the historian, and containing long and parenthetic periods.

From English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction by Coppee, Henry

And then, feeling that he had rather overshot the mark, he added in a parenthetic murmur, "Excellent Christian people they were, no doubt!"

From Principal Cairns by Cairns, John

The little parenthetic duo at the eighth bar breaks the roll of the song for one breath, and the concord of voices closes in again like a diapason.

From The Story of the Hymns and Tunes by Brown, Theron