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
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
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 Webster, W. F. (William Franklin)
This again for a moment hushed her, and they were both too grave now for parenthetic pity.
From The Wings of the Dove, Volume II by James, Henry
