parenthetic

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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

"Hardly to be called his inheritance, I think," said Percival, in a parenthetic way, "if he was the child of one Vincenza Vasari, and not of the Luttrells."

From Under False Pretences A Novel by Sergeant, Adeline

Nether Stowey is completely identified by its name; the statement about Coleridge is therefore supplementary and parenthetic.

From A Foreword to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition by James, Juliet Helena Lumbard

He injured the melody also by casting into the middle of it, like stones into a clear water, rough parenthetic sounds to suit his parenthetic phrases.

From The Poetry Of Robert Browning by Brooke, Stopford A. (Stopford Augustus)