parenthesis

How To Use parenthesis In A Sentence

• They appear with a standard two decimal format with negative numbers parenthesised.
• First, by way of a parenthesis, I don't think my logic about the use of the term efficiency was circular, as my points were the differences between material efficiency (how efficiently the system works in terms of itself) and human efficiency (how efficiently it serves people). Starbucks illustrates the weakness of global economy
• He is over fond of parenthesis and inane wisecracks.
• In parenthesis, I should add that the results have not yet been proven.
• Of his origins he said very little, merely mentioning in parenthesis that his background was poor.
• Thus He indicates the divine tranquillity of His nature; thus He minimises the fact of death; thus He reduces it to its true insignificance as a parenthesis across which may pass unaffected all sweet familiarities and loving friendships; thus He reknits the broken ties, and, though the form of their intercourse is hereafter to be profoundly modified, the substance of it remains, whereof He giveth assurance unto them in these His first words from the dead. Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII
• (I'm calling it footle, Ponderevo, out of praise, "he said in parenthesis.)" Think of the little clerks and jaded women and overworked people. Tono Bungay
• I guess this very long comment in parenthesis is a sort of compromise) which is about the depression in the 30’s, and in it he writes about how sometimes unemployed and underfed people would spend the little money they had in a movie ticket instead of buying food. If This is a Man by Primo Levi
• For in book i.chap. ix: 9, the historian remarks in a, parenthesis, “Beforetime, in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, thus he spake: Come, and let us go to the seer; for he that is now called a prophet was beforetime called a seer.” Theologico-Political Treatise
• The enclosing left parenthesis is second from left; hence, $matches[2] is 123.