Sentence examples for if tangentially from inspiring English sources

The shelf of volumes figured, if tangentially, in the interaction of figures important to Kafka's writing career.

But that's a whole other - if tangentially related - problem.

The different frames of reference have to be connected, even if only tangentially.

I wish I could be more specific, but I believe that as you go through this process you'll find yourself sensing the beginnings of something that engages you – and for which your experience, even if only tangentially, makes you at least partially qualified.

While the manufactured bogeymen of post-Dodd-Frank Wall Street, email scandals and Benghazi are certainly sexy (if only tangentially valid) talking points surrounding a possible Clinton presidency, the thing that's been strangely overlooked is the more than 280,000 American deaths that have been caused by gun violence here in the past decade alone.

Where Does the Computer End? Can we better understand governmental policies by tracing their relations to the computer systems that may have accompanied their inception and implementation, even if only tangentially?

To differentiate the two, if only tangentially, she has dubbed one OTTO and the other otto.

It was like he felt some kind of responsibility for what happened there, if only tangentially.

Yet the story grew more mysterious (if only tangentially so) on Friday, when ABC revealed that Pruitt's security detail had to break down the door of the condo last March, believing he was unresponsive and needed to be rescued.

Yet the story grew more mysterious (if only tangentially so) on Friday, when ABC revealed that Pruitt's security detail had to break down the door of the condo last March, believing he was unresponsive and needed to be rescued.

Trump's campaign has tried to blame several people who were, if at all, tangentially related to the Clinton campaign.