How to Use and so on in a Sentence

and so on

phrase
  • Your worst card should be paired against your opponent’s best, and so on.
    — Dana MacKenzie, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2026
  • What about observers, collapse of the wave function, and so on?
    — Quanta Magazine, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Some bars are clean but high-sugar, others have great macros but ‘dirty labels’ and so on.
    — Jess Cording, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
  • The number one seed on one team is supposed to play the number one seed on the other, and so on.
    — Dana MacKenzie, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2026
  • There’s a whole team in the office handling these things — the press, social media and so on.
    — David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 6 Sep. 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
  • After paying it off, move on to the second-smallest balance and so on.
    — Mallika Mitra, Sacbee.com, 24 Aug. 2026
  • That jumper pulls out a second name, and so on, and from the list flows all the serendipity of the fire season.
    — M. R. O’Connor, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026
  • The chapters are named after branching, pruning, gnarling, rooting, and so on.
    — Fiction Non Fiction, Literary Hub, 10 Sep. 2026
  • Get ready to give your immediate response on which shapes look more appealing, and so on.
    — Jordan Minor, PC Magazine, 29 July 2026
  • That the performers come from broken homes and are forced to do things on camera without their consent and so on.
    — Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2026
  • There might be a technical director, a head of performance, and so on.
    — Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Each person knows it, knows that the others know it, and so on indefinitely.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 19 Sep. 2026
  • The woman in the pink wig closed the door to the dressing room and shot the whiskey, too, then passed it to the woman beside her and so on.
    — Literary Hub, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Tier 1 is most likely, Tier 2 is competitive but less so, and so on.
    — Maham Javaid, NPR, 27 July 2026
  • Styling pros swear by this tip when outfitting a mantel, coffee table, console table, and so on.
    — Sarah Lyon, The Spruce, 19 Aug. 2026
  • But not speaking up can still be risky in an era of widespread worry about climate change, AI, war, and so on.
    — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 1 Oct. 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
  • Bugs, Daffy, Elmer Fudd and so on — entering and exiting stage left.
    — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 26 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
  • One example, a little bit more concrete, is Asian pop culture and anime, manga and so on.
    — Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 24 Aug. 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
  • A little bit, although the format is very different in terms of the mechanics of panel one, panel two, and so on.
    — Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 30 Sep. 2026
  • So do scheme, personnel groupings, whether a team has a young starting quarterback or some young starters on the offensive line, and so on.
    — Nicki Jhabvala, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Stripe for payments, Gusto for payroll, Ramp or Brex for corporate spend and so on.
    — Alex Lazarow, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Cooked for Kip, helped him with homework, tucked him in, walked him to school in the morning, giving him little pep talks on the way—joy, not fear, and so on.
    — George Saunders, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2026
  • Stars are mostly hydrogen and helium, with much smaller amounts of elements like iron, carbon, and so on.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 9 Oct. 2026

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