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

Nether Stowey is completely identified by its name; the statement about Coleridge is therefore supplementary and parenthetic.

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

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

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.