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
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 Maxwell Armfield
This rule is difficult to apply; it is frequently hard to decide whether a single word, such as however, or a brief phrase, is or is not parenthetic.
From A Foreword to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition by Juliet Helena Lumbard James
While Act V., 1 has some sentences cast in the parenthetic form, the expressions used are less lucid than we expect from Massinger.
From Philip Massinger by A. H. Cruickshank
