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
Bounce paused, in the midst of his mental energy, to take a parenthetic whiff.
From The Wild Man of the West A Tale of the Rocky Mountains by Webb, Archibald
Returning from this parenthetic remark, we are concerned here chiefly to remember that, as said at the outset, there existed thirty years ago, no tenable theory about the genesis of living things.
From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Spencer, Herbert
However when phrases and clauses are quite parenthetic, they are separated from the remainder of the sentence by parentheses, or by commas and dashes.
From English: Composition and Literature by Webster, W. F. (William Franklin)
