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
  • There is also a chance that the lever could be bumped incidentally.
    — Megan Boettcher, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 July 2022
  • Which, incidentally, is the best way to start any story.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 15 Aug. 2025
  • But all this stuff incidentally comes out, all this emotion.
    — Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 7 June 2026
  • Not incidentally, the game was played out with some off-field drama as a backdrop.
    — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Sep. 2021
  • Two of the biggest roars of the game came at halftime, incidentally.
    — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Pinocchio is, incidentally, the tale of a hungry child who cuts school.
    — Anna Momigliano, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2022
  • Watt, incidentally, has yet to record a sack this season, but is second with four tackles for a loss.
    — cleveland, 15 Oct. 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
  • Which, incidentally, seems to be the biggest upside of these tests.
    — Deanna Pai, Women's Health, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Let the record show, incidentally, that no drinking took place while watching the movie for this review.
    — Brian Lowry, CNN, 6 Aug. 2021
  • The wife of a marquis, incidentally, is called a marchioness.
    — Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 14 Nov. 2020
  • The next names on the storm list, incidentally, are Theta and Iota.
    — Leigh Morgan, al, 9 Nov. 2020
  • Daron Payne incidentally clipped the ball early in the third quarter.
    — Calvin Watkins, Dallas News, 26 Nov. 2020
  • And, incidentally, David knew what the music was going to be.
    — John Bleasdale, Variety, 24 June 2025
  • Prevc gave his head a small shake — incidentally, the same tell as his sister — and began his descent.
    — Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2026
  • Those themes, incidentally, are the same as Jean Paul Sartre’s.
    — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 12 Jan. 2018
  • Whether the substance was tear gas — which, incidentally, is a powder, not a gas — or pepper spray is unclear.
    — Assistant Editor, Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2026
  • Vogts, incidentally, still had license to dribble forward, play a one-two and find himself through on goal in the first half.
    — Michael Cox, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Both examples, incidentally, highlight the fact that a war’s name may differ from place to place.
    — Esther Brito Ruiz, The Conversation, 5 Sep. 2025
  • That should fix it in your granddaughter’s mind, and incidentally give you an edge over Bobbie.
    — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 21 June 2022
  • Which, incidentally, is still the case today.
    — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 6 Dec. 2025
  • And that, incidentally, may be the best description of Rushdie’s work.
    — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2023
  • And, incidentally, the new freedom that the pacu have found is responsible for the new look in the old dolphin tank.
    — Alicia Armstrong, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 Sep. 2017
  • Not incidentally, that is one of the ways Xi has tightened his grip on power in China.
    — Chas Danner, Daily Intelligencer, 4 Mar. 2018
  • Pereira, incidentally, thought Humphrey should have been flagged for the end-zone mugging of Hopkins.
    — Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 26 Nov. 2019
  • 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

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