say in passing

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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

The Quebec Act, and for this I might say in passing that we are duly grateful, was never to be extended.

From The Loyalist A Story of the American Revolution by Barrett, James Francis

I can only say in passing that it looks exactly like the printed advertisements.

From In Pastures New by Ade, George

I may say in passing that no portrait of her appears to me to be quite satisfactory.

From Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 6 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)

I may say in passing that the Captain's inquiry: "What has become of the officer of the law in Hempfield?" was purely rhetorical.

From Hempfield A Novel by Grayson, David