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

I may say in passing that if Miss Davenant were arrested, tried and imprisoned, it would be no more than she richly deserved.

From The Sixth Sense A Novel by McKenna, Stephen

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 Bruce, Wiliam Cabell

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

I may say, in passing, that I had never before killed a running animal at that range.

From Across Mongolian Plains A Naturalist's Account of China's 'Great Northwest' by Andrews, Roy Chapman