parenthetic
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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
Yes," said Mrs. Poyser, returning from a parenthetic glance at the cows, "that's allays the reason I'm to sit down wi', when you've a mind to do anything contrairy.
From Adam Bede by Eliot, George
Miss Bates, indeed, is verbose, roundabout, and parenthetic; but the widow never deviates into coherence.
From Dickens English Men of Letters by Ward, Adolphus William, Sir
But the whole dispute on Poetic Diction is too deep and too broad for an occasional or parenthetic notice.
From The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 by Japp, Alexander H. (Alexander Hay)
