- 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
Similar in principle to the enclosing of parenthetic expressions between commas is the setting off by commas of phrases or dependent clauses preceding or following the main clause of a sentence.
From A Foreword to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition by Juliet Helena Lumbard James
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 Archibald Webb
A dash is used alone or with a comma to inclose a phrase or clause which is parenthetic or explanatory.
From English: Composition and Literature by W. F. (William Franklin) Webster
