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
Two short sentences are better than one long one containing a parenthetic expression.
From News Writing The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories by Spencer, M. Lyle (Matthew Lyle)
Both of them are frankly parenthetic; both parentheses are superfluous; neither has any incidental beauty to redeem it; and, above all, we may be sure that Pippa did not think in parentheses.
From Browning's Heroines by Armfield, Maxwell
Thus Sally in a parenthetic voice— "... and that she really isn't such a very great humbug after all!"
From Somehow Good by De Morgan, William Frend
