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

This again for a moment hushed her, and they were both too grave now for parenthetic pity.

From The Wings of the Dove, Volume II by James, Henry

While Act V., 1 has some sentences cast in the parenthetic form, the expressions used are less lucid than we expect from Massinger.

From Philip Massinger by Cruickshank, A. H.

"Hardly to be called his inheritance, I think," said Percival, in a parenthetic way, "if he was the child of one Vincenza Vasari, and not of the Luttrells."

From Under False Pretences A Novel by Sergeant, Adeline