- a variation of parenthetical.
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
"Hark at that child!" cried Mrs Durbeyfield, with parenthetic admiration.
From Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Hardy, Thomas
Unluckily I am ignorant of the very rudiments of the matter, so his parenthetic enthusiasms were lost upon me.
From Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 3 (of 3) Essay 2: The Death of Mr Mill - Essay 3: Mr Mill's Autobiography by Morley, John
Bounce paused, in the midst of his mental energy, to take a parenthetic whiff.
From The Wild Man of the West A Tale of the Rocky Mountains by Webb, Archibald
