parentheses
Example Sentences
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It’s followed by parentheses that hold plain descriptions — red chapel relief; oil can; or, folding table and chairs, dark brown.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2025
It’s less jarring than parentheses but a bigger interruption than commas.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 20, 2025
They are listed in ascending order of their trailing-month returns, which are displayed in the parentheses.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 10, 2025
It will always be a melter of a slow jam, but its intention is in those parentheses – to be in the sensation of aliveness he’s created.
From Salon • Oct. 19, 2025
She smelled like vanilla, and her eyelashes were like thick black parentheses.
From "Leah on the Offbeat" by Becky Albertalli
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
