How to Use incidentally in a Sentence

incidentally

adverb

• incidentally, have you seen the new building they're putting up?
• Not incidentally, the market slump was followed by widespread layoffs.
• Not at all incidentally, a gun was on the floor behind the console of Cobb’s car.
  — Joe Soucheray, Twin Cities, 27 Jan. 2024
• There is also a chance that the lever could be bumped incidentally.
  — Megan Boettcher, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 July 2022
• The board, incidentally, opted just last month to move forward with a strike pay increase to $500 per week.
  — Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 3 Mar. 2023
• And that, incidentally, may be the best description of Rushdie’s work.
  — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2023
• Pinocchio is, incidentally, the tale of a hungry child who cuts school.
  — Anna Momigliano, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2022
• Which, incidentally, seems to be the biggest upside of these tests.
  — Deanna Pai, Women's Health, 28 Apr. 2023
• This week’s episode incidentally marked Carvey’s return to the show, two months after his 32-year-old son Dex died of a drug overdose.
  — Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 18 Jan. 2024
• This was, incidentally, the same Celtics team that had lost its last two games and was playing the second game of a back-to-back after losing to the Clippers on Monday night.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2022
• That should fix it in your granddaughter’s mind, and incidentally give you an edge over Bobbie.
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 21 June 2022
• The middle row of teeth, incidentally, is a toothbrush.
  — The New Yorker, 12 Nov. 2022
• Klinghoffer has been a key part of the Pearl Jam frontman’s solo band, on record and tour… playing alongside, incidentally, Chad Smith.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 31 Mar. 2022
• The firm’s offices are, incidentally, just a few blocks from a McDonald’s in Moscow.
  — Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2022
• Weintraub — who, incidentally, is a graduate of USC — hopes to find a balance between the private and the public.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2022
• Johnson, incidentally, did not have as good of a day Monday as Wilkinson.
  — Paul Gattis | [e-mail], al, 10 Jan. 2023
• Norwegians can’t get enough of this sort of thing, incidentally.
  — James Stewart, Robb Report, 23 Apr. 2022
• How, incidentally, did the Lucky Duck Foundation get its name?
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 14 May 2023
• That, incidentally, is where Kimmel works best as host.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Mar. 2024
• Sare was not the only LaRouchie on the ballot last cycle, incidentally.
  — Tommy Craggs, The New Republic, 13 Feb. 2023
• One is made by Russell Stover, the other the classic Whitman’s Sampler (which, incidentally, are owned by the same company).
  — Laura Reiley, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Feb. 2023
• That’s been his agenda—and incidentally, the stated agenda of the Democratic Party—all along.
  — Abdul El-Sayed, The New Republic, 27 Jan. 2022
• Many of whom, incidentally, had no experience with libraries before the City Council gave them the job.
  — Jessica Garrisonstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2023
• When the pandemic hit, Dr. Jay was incidentally in her own period of flux.
  — Emma Goldberg, New York Times, 14 May 2023
• But the neighbors, which incidentally included the playwright Lee Breuer, were friendly and gave Wegman’s dogs freedom to roam.
  — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 28 June 2023
• The show’s four leads are actors and actresses of color, given that the decision was made to cast the normally white Albert Wesker as Lance Reddick (who incidentally is the best part of the show).
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 16 July 2022
• Which, incidentally, coincides with the Beavers’ progress as a program.
  — Ndaschel, oregonlive, 11 Apr. 2023
• Her mother was involved in the Indonesian embassy in town, which became a way for Sadeli to express her culture and, incidentally, to get exposed to street art.
  — CNN, 13 May 2022
• That compound comes from the other main ingredient in ayahuasca, a shrub called chacruna (which, incidentally, is a relative of the plant that gives us coffee).
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 16 May 2022
• Not incidentally, not people caught in the crossfire, although that has happened.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 11 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024