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.
  • And, not incidentally, made a Broadway show seem as cool as Woodstock.
    New York Times, 31 Mar. 2021
  • Yet, incidentally, the album itself was made rather quickly.
    Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2024
  • Richie, incidentally, is not a candidate for a college job, in spite of his success over eight seasons at O’Dowd.
    Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Mar. 2021
  • But that’s life — something that, incidentally, wouldn’t be possible without periods.
    Tina Charisma, Vulture, 1 Apr. 2021
  • 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
  • Not incidentally, the game was played out with some off-field drama as a backdrop.
    Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Sep. 2021
  • 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
  • Let the record show, incidentally, that no drinking took place while watching the movie for this review.
    Brian Lowry, CNN, 6 Aug. 2021
  • Which, incidentally, seems to be the biggest upside of these tests.
    Deanna Pai, Women's Health, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Mikolas, incidentally, will make $16 million this year on a team that will rank in the top 10 in payroll, so the Dodgers aren’t the only bunch with a checkbook.
    Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Watt, incidentally, has yet to record a sack this season, but is second with four tackles for a loss.
    cleveland, 15 Oct. 2021
  • The only way to really keep them out of the yard, incidentally, is with a high fence — 8, 10 feet or more as deer can really jump.
    Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Nov. 2021
  • 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
  • And that period contributed to a lot of the business that’s flown—and the Chinese’s very high regard for the UK, incidentally.
    Annabelle Timsit, Quartz, 17 May 2021
  • Which, incidentally, is what the world has been craving.
    Sloane Crosley, Town & Country, 23 Jan. 2022
  • 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
  • All this in the blink of an eye—which, incidentally, also takes about 150 milliseconds.
    Jeremy White, WIRED, 9 May 2024
  • That should fix it in your granddaughter’s mind, and incidentally give you an edge over Bobbie.
    Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 21 June 2022
  • There is, incidentally, no law in the country against doing so.
    Arkansas Online, 1 June 2021
  • The middle row of teeth, incidentally, is a toothbrush.
    The New Yorker, 12 Nov. 2022
  • Hungry male walleyes were in the area, too, getting hooked incidentally on our sturgeon gear.
    Tony Kennedy, Star Tribune, 6 May 2021
  • 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
  • At the time some commercial fishers sought to keep bycatch, or incidentally caught sport fish such as walleyes.
    Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Dec. 2021
  • The firm’s offices are, incidentally, just a few blocks from a McDonald’s in Moscow.
    Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2022
  • The event demanded an all-black dress code, matching both the album’s dark energy and, incidentally, the stormy night.
    Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2024

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