Sentence examples for opening a parenthesis from inspiring English sources

To take a country farther into a questionable war ought to be harder than opening a parenthesis and saying you know where you will close it.

To the extent that we get requests and here I must open a parenthesis (On various occasions, we have gone to FAO and asked "Do you need funds for this or that?"; they have never asked us.

Klein summarises this allure: The moment of taking a cigarette allows one to open a parenthesis in the time of ordinary experience, a space and a time of heightened attention that give rise to a feeling of transcendence, evoked through the ritual of fire, smoke, cinder connecting hand, lungs, breath and mouth.

Open a parenthesis.

Open a parenthesis at the end of the sentence you wish to reference.

Mr President, I should like to open a parenthesis in this debate which so far has been exclusively in Dutch and introduce a few 'brushstrokes' with southern colours.

The music cuts out, and Godard speaks, in voice-over: "Now it's time to open a second parenthesis, and to describe the emotions of the characters".

Before the period, open a parenthesis and write the author's last name.

After the sentence you wish to reference (in this case "Peaches are best in August") open a parenthesis, leaving the period and superscript number in place for now.

Learning to code online is futile if you don't know how to find and open a file or type parentheses.

L. 107 314 inserted opening parenthesis before "41 U.S.C".