say in passing

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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

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

I should say in passing that Bergmann was an excellent though not a great conductor.

From Memories of a Musical Life by Mason, William

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 must say in passing, that it is not the right materialistic treatment which delights the world in “Robinson,” but the romantic and philosophic interest of the fable.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 3 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis