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

My soul rose in praise; and I may here say, in passing, that every Minister of that Church whom I wrote to or visited treated me in the same spirit throughout all my tour.

From The Story of John G. Paton Or Thirty Years Among South Sea Cannibals by Paton, James

This chapter, I may say in passing, is the chapter of most permanent value in the "Defence."

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 89, March, 1865 by Various

Neatness, I may say in passing, is my strong point.

From The High Heart by King, Basil

And let me say, in passing, that reconstruction at the South is hindered to-day for the same reason, responsibility is taken away from a large class of citizens.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady