supplementary to
Example Sentences
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The head of Operation Kenova, Sir Iain Livingstone, said the 16 people investigated were "supplementary" to the operation's main focus of investigating Stakeknife.
From BBC • Dec. 6, 2023
If I’m feeling this way, this energy is up in the air, I can write songs, and that’s really important, but this project was almost supplementary to the songs.
From The Verge • Aug. 29, 2016
That means 10 more years before a system — once imagined to be only supplementary to Social Security and pension plans — is fully tested.
From Washington Post • Apr. 4, 2012
When professional artists use watercolour, so the grand narrative goes, it is to make preliminary sketches, try-outs, what-ifs that are supplementary to the real business of art, which involves in oils.
From The Guardian • Feb. 5, 2011
That is a fair way of further enriching a rich stuff; but it is embroidery merely in the sense that it is literally embroidered: the needlework is only supplementary to weaving.
From Art in Needlework A Book about Embroidery by Buckle, Mary
