say in passing
Example Sentences
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He’d say, in passing, that he’d modelled for Guess jeans—“runway only”—or that he’d appeared on the cover of Russian Vogue.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 4, 2019
This little circumstance, I may say in passing, was the beginning of my friendship with the Jeremy who forms the subject of the present story.
From All Men are Ghosts by L. P. (Lawrence Pearsall) Jacks
And I may say in passing that the hotel had a pleasant, well-worn, homely look about it; very plain, but extremely comfortable.
From Far Off Things by Arthur Machen
Another proof, we might say in passing, how little disposed Franklin was to borrow from Richard Jackson, or any one else without due acknowledgment.
From Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Wiliam Cabell Bruce
I may say in passing that no portrait of her appears to me to be quite satisfactory.
From Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 6 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
