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

It is characteristic of its author in its reality of feeling, in its seeking an unusual point of view, in its parenthetic and allusive style, and its occasional high felicity of expression.

From Browning's Shorter Poems by Baker, Franklin T. (Franklin Thomas)

This rule is difficult to apply; it is frequently hard to decide whether a single word, such as however, or a brief phrase, is or is not parenthetic.

From A Foreword to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition by James, Juliet Helena Lumbard

In style The Duke of Milan is marked by several passages of fine poetry and a comparative absence of the parenthetic construction.

From Philip Massinger by Cruickshank, A. H.