How to Use and so on in a Sentence

and so on

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  • Some bars are clean but high-sugar, others have great macros but ‘dirty labels’ and so on.
    Jess Cording, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
  • Ten was of course too many, what with the addition of camp helpers, assistants, aides and so on.
    Paul Schullery, Outdoor Life, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Get ready to give your immediate response on which shapes look more appealing, and so on.
    Jordan Minor, PC Magazine, 29 July 2026
  • Tier 1 is most likely, Tier 2 is competitive but less so, and so on.
    Maham Javaid, NPR, 27 July 2026
  • Wages, signing-on bonuses, agent fees and so on all inflate a total costing far beyond the club-to-club number.
    Kaya Kaynak, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2026
  • The first ingredient listed is the one the product contains the most of, followed by the second, and so on.
    Jillian Kubala, Health, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Media coverage of Nadal is all about his tennis, the intensity of his game and so on.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 19 Aug. 2026
  • Instead of jotting down vague areas like kitchen counters, break it into bite-sized tasks—kitchen island, counter to the left of the stove, and so on.
    Marisa Suzanne Martin, The Spruce, 16 July 2026
  • There were new artists emerging who were sort of pure electronic artists like Kraftwerk and Gary Numan and so on.
    Peter Larsen, Daily News, 14 July 2026
  • If an episode set in the desert emphasizes orange, the next might lean toward the green of the rainforest, followed by the white of snow, and so on.
    Matthew Jacobs, HollywoodReporter, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Stripe for payments, Gusto for payroll, Ramp or Brex for corporate spend and so on.
    Alex Lazarow, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
  • There are complaints about a lack of Greek actors, awkward trailer dialogue, odd costuming and so on.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
  • Data gets scattered across enterprise resource planning systems, spreadsheets, email and so on.
    Andrew Zhyvolovych, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Too often, nonprofits treat companies like banks, leading with low-value sponsorships and so on.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026
  • For many years, we’ve been focused on Google’s next move, Google’s algorithm updates, its search engine results pages and so on.
    Jason Bland, Forbes.com, 23 Feb. 2026
  • This range is likely a best-case figure, though; real-world performance will depend on terrain, rider weight, loading, weather, and so on.
    New Atlas, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Policies relating to residency, taxes, banking, currencies, and so on change all the time.
    Kathleen Peddicord, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • The acoustic shock waves may strike soft soil, hard rock, various forms of human infrastructure, and so on, each of which will affect how energy gets transmitted.
    John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Eventually that carbon will begin to fuse into neon, then the neon will fuse into magnesium, and so on up the periodic table until iron builds up in the core.
    Phil Plait, Scientific American, 14 Aug. 2026
  • All married couples get on the dance floor and are asked to step off if they’ve been married less than 1 year, then 5 years, and so on until only the couple married the longest remains.
    Ashlyn Robinette, PEOPLE, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Physicians are used to a strict hierarchy in medical school, where medical students report to interns, interns report to residents and so on.
    Nishtha Sareen, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Badmouthing the press, undermining the independence of the courts, and undermining confidence in elections, and so on.
    Dana Taylor, USA Today, 24 July 2026
  • Imagine if legal issues, confidential complaints, private stakeholders and so on were mentioned or included.
    Davey Winder, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
  • While there are plenty of investments to make in the early days—a good hire, quality photography, and so on—with a little creativity, your marketing efforts don’t always need to break the bank.
    Meaghan O'Neill, Architectural Digest, 6 July 2026
  • The free flip phone was never really free Remember when carriers—Verizon, AT&T, and so on—gave away cell phones?
    Bydoug Ashburn, Encyclopedia Britannica, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Under a common 6-year model, employees are 20% vested after two years, 40% vested after three years, and so on, reaching full vesting after six years.
    Ryan Ermey, CNBC, 11 Aug. 2026
  • From there, Sooper extended its reach to collaborators of label artists, then collaborators of those collaborators, and so on.
    Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2026
  • CFOs must speak consumer psychology; CMOs must speak capital allocation, and so on.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
  • The result was tremendous pushing power—crucial for construction outfits on the hilly terrain of Northern California, Oregon, and so on.
    Caleb Jacobs, The Drive, 20 Aug. 2026
  • And these transfers are crucial because municipalities are responsible for providing many everyday public services such as schools, local roads, public transport, and so on.
    Tax Notes Staff, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026

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