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.
  • There is, incidentally, an alien in the back seat of the car.
    — chicagotribune.com, 21 July 2019
  • The Irish, incidentally, have one of their two bye weeks, prior to the Nov. 27 matchup with the Tar Heels.
    — Eric Hansen, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Aug. 2020
  • The next names on the storm list, incidentally, are Theta and Iota.
    — Leigh Morgan, al, 9 Nov. 2020
  • Not at all incidentally, a gun was on the floor behind the console of Cobb’s car.
    — Joe Soucheray, Twin Cities, 27 Jan. 2024
  • None of which has much to do, incidentally, with Joe Panik.
    — Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Apr. 2018
  • There is also a chance that the lever could be bumped incidentally.
    — Megan Boettcher, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 July 2022
  • Those themes, incidentally, are the same as Jean Paul Sartre’s.
    — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 12 Jan. 2018
  • The worst performer on the day, incidentally, was eBay.
    — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 30 Oct. 2020
  • Not incidentally, the game was played out with some off-field drama as a backdrop.
    — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Sep. 2021
  • The Music Man, incidentally, is about small-town life in Iowa.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 4 Jan. 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
  • Pereira, incidentally, thought Humphrey should have been flagged for the end-zone mugging of Hopkins.
    — Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 26 Nov. 2019
  • 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
  • Not incidentally, that is one of the ways Xi has tightened his grip on power in China.
    — Chas Danner, Daily Intelligencer, 4 Mar. 2018
  • Which, incidentally, seems to be the biggest upside of these tests.
    — Deanna Pai, Women's Health, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Daron Payne incidentally clipped the ball early in the third quarter.
    — Calvin Watkins, Dallas News, 26 Nov. 2020
  • 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
  • All that mint, incidentally, is true Kentucky mint; it’s been sourced from the same vendor, Dohn and Dohn Gardens, for more than 30 years.
    — Carey Jones, Vogue, 5 May 2018
  • The wife of a marquis, incidentally, is called a marchioness.
    — Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 14 Nov. 2020
  • Watt, incidentally, has yet to record a sack this season, but is second with four tackles for a loss.
    — cleveland, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Most whitetips are shot incidentally by mourning and white-winged dove hunters.
    — Matt Williams, Dallas News, 29 Aug. 2020
  • Most whitetips are shot incidentally by mourning and white-winged dove hunters.
    — Matt Williams, ExpressNews.com, 20 Aug. 2020
  • 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
  • Putting aside the many risks, there are clearly vast profits to be made in doing business with Russia, which incidentally also has the world’s fourth biggest reserves of rare earths, far bigger than Ukraine’s.
    — Matthew Chance, CNN, 2 Mar. 2025
  • Siragusa’s success is the inevitable outcome, some would imply, of what happens when beauty is weaponized to a legion of hopeful young men with disposable income who, incidentally, aren’t aware that the object of their affection is already married.
    — Patricia Hernandez, Rolling Stone, 24 Mar. 2025

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