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

That incident, I may say in passing, served to mark the termination of my career as a circus hand.

From Adventures and Recollections by Bill o'th' Hoylus End

The wild beauty of this hyperbole, I may say, in passing, it would not be easy to match in literature.

From Nature by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The Quebec Act, and for this I might say in passing that we are duly grateful, was never to be extended.

From The Loyalist A Story of the American Revolution by Barrett, James Francis

"How dusta find the cobbles to-day—any softer?" they would say in passing.

From The Blind Mother and The Last Confession by Caine, Hall, Sir