Examples of 'parenthesis' in a sentence

Meaning of "parenthesis"

Parenthesis (noun): A punctuation mark ( ) used to separate or interject additional information within a sentence that is not essential to the main idea but provides clarification, examples, or asides. Parentheses are also employed in mathematical expressions and formal writing to enclose supplementary material. They are commonly found in written language to indicate tangential content
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  • A clause, phrase or word which is inserted (usually for explanation or amplification) into a passage which is already grammatically complete, and usually marked off with brackets, commas or dashes.
  • Either of a pair of brackets, especially round brackets, ( and ) (used to enclose parenthetical material in a text).
  • A digression; the use of such digressions.
  • Such brackets as used to clarify expressions by grouping those terms affected by a common operator, or to enclose the components of a vector or the elements of a matrix.

How to use "parenthesis" in a sentence

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The number in parenthesis corresponds to late responses.
The phrase which is somewhat broken is a parenthesis.
The number in parenthesis indicates the quantity.
The name of the host is indicated in parenthesis.
Let me put the parenthesis in a white again.
Parenthesis and most other punctuation is ignored.
Let me close the parenthesis right there.
A parenthesis that was well worth writing in bold.
It introduces by way of parenthesis a very necessary warning.
Parenthesis can be done irrespective of the order of terms.
The word in parenthesis is the role name.
Parenthesis can be used to group operations together.
The results in parenthesis concern playoff games.
The director of each film is indicated in parenthesis.
Numbers in parenthesis represent number of appearances as an interchange.

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Consider this grammar for balanced parenthesis.
In the parenthesis is the constituency they represented.
Operators placed within parenthesis are executed first.
So freezing means you escape the parenthesis.
The opening parenthesis is never preceded by a comma.
Could not find matching opening parenthesis.
Meditation is open a parenthesis in the activity daily.
Could not find matching closing parenthesis.
A few too many parenthesis in that paragraph.
Afterwards please delete this area in parenthesis.
Numbers in parenthesis represent percentage unless specified.
Although zessica is daring parenthesis from usual.
It says in parenthesis that they will be cut.
This is a good time to insert a little parenthesis.
Missing ending parenthesis at the end of paragraph.
The scope of each role is provided in parenthesis.
The results not in parenthesis are laboratory results.
The titer from this experiment is in parenthesis.
Values in parenthesis indicate the day of dosing.
So here you see the parenthesis around.
Values in parenthesis reflect the final pH at equilibrium.
Remember that everything in parenthesis happen first.
Dates in parenthesis indicate year established.
The theoretical mass calculation is given in parenthesis.
The value of the parenthesis is then considered as an operand.
Ions used for quantitation are shown in parenthesis.
A trivial parenthesis in the history of painting.
The broader group of viruses is added in parenthesis.
Use spaces for parenthesis indentation.
Regions deleted or substituted are designated within parenthesis.
By using parenthesis the order of precedence can be modified.
Their relative proportion is given in percentage in parenthesis.
The texts in parenthesis remain unchanged.
But there is still a bug when parenthesis.
In parenthesis includes the late responses.

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