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

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 James, Henry

The little parenthetic duo at the eighth bar breaks the roll of the song for one breath, and the concord of voices closes in again like a diapason.

From The Story of the Hymns and Tunes by Brown, Theron