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
It is characteristic of its author in its reality of feeling, in its seeking an unusual point of view, in its parenthetic and allusive style, and its occasional high felicity of expression.
From Browning's Shorter Poems by Franklin T. (Franklin Thomas) Baker
Miss Bates, indeed, is verbose, roundabout, and parenthetic; but the widow never deviates into coherence.
From Dickens English Men of Letters by Sir Adolphus William Ward
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
