Sentence examples for incidental things from inspiring English sources

"There might be a coffee stain or a fold in a page, supposedly incidental things, but they help the mind associate what's on the page with what is being read," he said.

"It's a rather incidental thing in the scheme of things.

"It's not an incidental thing anymore," said Ruth Ahlbrand, who, with her husband, John, owns ReMax Central in Las Vegas.

For some New Yorkers, a shoe sale is an incidental thing, a chance to pick up a pair of loafers, or absent-mindedly rummage through racks of heels.

The idea to give experience points to reflect your popularity in social media seems like the most incidental thing that a person could ever dream up.

"I want it to be an incidental thing, which is what happens in our everyday life," Rios said.

We will move toward this dystopian world if we continue to treat the landscape as just an incidental, disposable thing.

So there's welcome, if subtle, progress on the incidental side of things.

What gave the piece its oomph were things incidental to the tune: an impressive double-time solo by Mr. Grenadier, followed by a tumultuous elaboration on the song's closing riff.

The Stoics made emotions into judgments about the value of things incidental to an agent's virtue, to which we should therefore remain perfectly indifferent.

It's just an incidental benefit when things don't quite go right.