parentheses

Example Sentences

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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

Unlike periods and commas, em dashes aren’t integral to sentence structure; they’re a considered choice that can, but by no means have to, take the place of commas, parentheses and semicolons.

From Salon • Jun. 11, 2025

They are untitled, but No. 14, in parentheses, tells us it is the site of “John Brown’s Tannery.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 17, 2023

A few weeks after I first noticed them, they look like a thick set of parentheses around my lips, and every time I see them, my stomach drops.

From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish