say in passing

Example Sentences

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He’d say, in passing, that he’d modelled for Guess jeans—“runway only”—or that he’d appeared on the cover of Russian Vogue.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 4, 2019

It was a purely rhetorical appeal, let me say in passing.

From The High Heart by King, Basil

We need hardly say, in passing, that all that was true of the tests with colored cloths, was also true of the tests in which the placards were used.

From Clever Hans (The horse of Mr. Von Osten): A contribution to experimental animal and human psychology by Pfungst, Oskar

This little circumstance, I may say in passing, was the beginning of my friendship with the Jeremy who forms the subject of the present story.

From All Men are Ghosts by Jacks, L. P. (Lawrence Pearsall)

I must say in passing, that it is not the right materialistic treatment which delights the world in “Robinson,” but the romantic and philosophic interest of the fable.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 3 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis