How to Use and otherwise in a Sentence

and otherwise

phrase
  • That’s a surefire way to bend the brim and otherwise misshape it.
    Talia Ergas, Travel + Leisure, 27 June 2023
  • When the new parents are sleep-deprived and otherwise not at their best, the stage may be set for conflict.
    Susan Adcox, Parents, 31 July 2024
  • Grape must is not wasted but fed to cattle and otherwise recycled.
    Lana Bortolot, Forbes.com, 22 Apr. 2025
  • Friends famous and otherwise quickly began to weigh in with shock and heartbreak.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 15 Nov. 2025
  • The world–the art world and otherwise–has always struggled with complex women.
    Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025
  • Then there’s the importance of power—spending and otherwise—and who has it.
    Tori Latham, Robb Report, 20 Dec. 2025
  • But there are mechanisms in place, structurally and otherwise, to stop these things.
    ABC News, 26 Jan. 2025
  • The turmoil of the past few years, economic and otherwise, hasn’t helped matters.
    Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2023
  • There’s plenty at stake, financial and otherwise, for one of the Padres’ top starters.
    Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 May 2025
  • Other groups help with that and with housing, job training and otherwise getting people back on their feet.
    Megan Banta, The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 July 2023
  • The only certainty is that media, social and otherwise, will lap it all up.
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 28 Feb. 2024
  • His education, musical and otherwise, would come from life in and around his new band.
    Jesse Jarnow, Pitchfork, 12 Jan. 2026
  • His wife was dying of cancer, and bills—medical and otherwise—were piling up.
    Vince Guerrieri, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Dec. 2023
  • Still, even outside of those few crucial pages, the plot is infused with driving, aimless and otherwise.
    Emma Copley Eisenberg, The Atlantic, 23 Jan. 2024
  • Ethanol industry groups make the case that those studies are outdated and otherwise flawed.
    Evan Halper, Washington Post, 29 May 2023
  • So many villagers have gone overseas in hopes of better lives — legally and otherwise — that many homes there stand vacant.
    Steve Karnowski, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 May 2025
  • Why should women have more of a role in bringing up children and otherwise managing households than men?
    Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 20 May 2024
  • There were all these obstacles, natural and otherwise, in terms of shooting it.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 30 Nov. 2023
  • But the data — anecdotal and otherwise — paints a mixed picture.
    Rachel Treisman, NPR, 10 Sep. 2025
  • These are the most intense edits on her draft, emotionally and otherwise.
    Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 22 Mar. 2026
  • Orgasms, shared and otherwise, represent wins as coveted as anything on the ice, and these are two men who love to win.
    Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 26 Nov. 2025
  • Prosecutors don’t set captives, Black and otherwise, free—they’re the ones who put them away in the first place.
    Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2024
  • The Bills are now a much different team and have certainly learned their lessons in the playoffs and otherwise.
    Tim Graham, The Athletic, 19 Jan. 2025
  • Below are some of our top picks for the best movies (original and otherwise) streaming on Hulu right now.
    WIRED, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Leavitt climbs about three times a week, including at a climbing gym, and otherwise stays active through surfing and yard work.
    Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Nov. 2023
  • My mother had raised me on her own, with my Aunt Fely’s help, financial and otherwise.
    Han Ong, New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Hassan was working as a porter, hired to carry gear and otherwise assist those attempting the summit.
    Eve Sampson, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2023
  • Shirtcliff didn’t caption any of the photos and otherwise not publicly spoken about Dane’s death.
    Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 21 Feb. 2026
  • Doesn’t running around an amusement park beat running around a hotel, being too loud at the pool and otherwise annoying the staff?
    Stephen Borelli, USA TODAY, 2 July 2023
  • So treating these eye wrinkles is not a case for your standard (and otherwise excellent) hydrating eye cream.
    Deanna Pai, Vogue, 27 Oct. 2025

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