side remark

Example Sentences

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As is often the case, there was an unscripted side remark when he hit a particularly vivid passage.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 7, 2017

I hope, as a sort of side remark, it isn't rain that's in the wind, for the soldiers over at camp have had enough water to set up a rival establishment with Mr. Noah.

From Tom Swift and His War Tank, or, Doing His Bit for Uncle Sam by Appleton, Victor [pseud.]

He did not seem to like the taste he’d had of our quality, as I heard the Irish captain of the after-gun, on the port side, remark.

From Under the Meteor Flag Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War by Collingwood, Harry

I'm just slippin' you the proposition, with the side remark that now and then, when the jumble seems worse than ever, you can get a glimpse of what might be a clew, or might not.

From Shorty McCabe on the Job by Ford, Sewell

When a necessary explanation is unduly long, or is woven into the story in too many strands, one disposes of it in an introductory statement, or perhaps in a side remark.

From How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell by Bryant, Sara Cone