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
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
The fact that I still loved my husband I placed as a parenthetic consideration, in my plans.
From My Actor-Husband A true story of American stage life by Anonymous
Parenthetic Expressions.—The use of long parenthetic expressions within a sentence is also a frequent cause of lack of clearness.
From News Writing The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories by Spencer, M. Lyle (Matthew Lyle)
