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
Thus Sally in a parenthetic voice— "... and that she really isn't such a very great humbug after all!"
From Somehow Good by William Frend De Morgan
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 Juliet Helena Lumbard James
She had come back to another, which was one of her own; her own were so closely connected that Densher's were at best but parenthetic.
From The Wings of the Dove, Volume II by Henry James
