Sentence examples for it was parenthetical from inspiring English sources

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There was something thrilling in the way you were talking about the 'belly is the best part of the tuna.' That was the place where you slowed down, even though it was parenthetical.

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Sundays are a good day to do all that because they should be parenthetical to real life.

The "he said" is parenthetical, so in this construction "missing" seems to modify "elbow" — not what we intended.

Because the phrase introduced by "as well as" is parenthetical, the subject is simply "An Abu Sayyaf leader" and the verb should be singular — "was also said".

(As this is written, "as a result" is parenthetical and "perhaps" seems to modify "he often says" — which is not what we meant).

As we've noted before, phrases like "as well as," "coupled with" and "along with" are parenthetical and do not make the subject plural.

All through the conversation, as in the President's transcripts there are parenthetical expressions like "expletive deleted" or "inaudible" or "unintelligible".

However, although Post's remarks were parenthetical and extremely condensed, Łukasiewicz explained his intuitions and motivations carefully and at length.

The text citation is parenthetical, which means the source reference is surrounded by parenthesis after you have used a quote, or after you have paraphrased something from a book.

The show might almost be parenthetically titled "museum on a couch," so clearly does the Modern seem to flop down, stare at the ceiling and mull things over, in a stream-of-consciousness mode.

And he is, parenthetically, not just our ambassador, but a very good personal friend of mine -- we've been close for years -- and a man who is astonishingly free of resentment and demons, given what he went through.

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