How to Use ancillary in a Sentence

ancillary

adjective

• The company hopes to boost its sales by releasing ancillary products.
• And genre movies work very well in the ancillary space as well.
  — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Feb. 2023
• What the Heat need now is to find out how some of the ancillary pieces fit.
  — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 5 Nov. 2019
• Plans for the game and all of the ancillary events that come with it have been in the works for more than two years.
  — Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Jan. 2022
• Those ancillary upgrades are nice, but the big changes are still the chips.
  — Antonio G. Di Benedetto, The Verge, 30 Oct. 2024
• Not here for the chit-chat Quenton Nelson has all the ancillary stuff out of the way.
  — Scott Horner, Indianapolis Star, 11 May 2018
• All of the graphics on the video board and ancillary displays are new as well.
  — Hannah Kirby, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 Mar. 2021
• And with all that, merchandise and all the rest of the incomes that come ancillary to touring.
  — The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 27 May 2021
• The specifics of her story are almost ancillary to the film's message.
  — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 5 Nov. 2021
• That’s starting to change—and the ancillary features of AI support may suit us just fine.
  — Mac Schwerin, The Atlantic, 14 June 2023
• But sometimes that’s part of it, that these sort of ancillary things do matter.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 9 Feb. 2022
• The Heat have to compete at the ancillary positions, and likely have to win them.
  — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 28 Sep. 2020
• Instead, ancillary fees should be taxed at the same rate as airfare.
  — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 2 Mar. 2024
• The tip-off to a tree like this is the ancillary sign nearby; look for droppings, rubs, scrapes, and kicked up leaves and grass left by feeding deer.
  — Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 20 July 2023
• The question is whether there is anyone out there who values the Heat’s ancillary pieces to the degree the Heat have in recent years.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 16 June 2024
• Thank you for the reminder of all of the ancillary services hospice offers.
  — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 24 Oct. 2020
• Most of the ancillary folks wore medical masks, from the mascots to the team’s dance squad to the base coaches, umpires and reporters.
  — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 7 May 2020
• But serving as a voice for women was ancillary to her full-time COO role.
  — Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 9 Aug. 2022
• The Haslem contract is ancillary to the overall struggles.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 19 Nov. 2022
• The actual concours is a must-see, and the ancillary events are more than worthwhile.
  — Brett Berk, Car and Driver, 2 Mar. 2018
• Even books require a host of ancillary staff to publish.
  — Lionel Shriver, Harper's magazine, 10 Feb. 2019
• Prison phone providers won't have to follow the FCC ancillary-fee limits in all cases, though.
  — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 6 Aug. 2020
• The school structure is so large that the academy cannot fill all the classrooms and ancillary spaces.
  — Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 27 Mar. 2021
• The savings from this ancillary benefit alone might make your case for you.
  — Shankar Somasundaram, Forbes, 12 Aug. 2022
• And what of the ancillary streaming businesses of the two companies?
  — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Mar. 2022
• There was a vote about whether to proceed with an ancillary matter to the Percoco case.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2021
• The parties present the court with a wide variety of issues ancillary to the core request to make the OAG Report public.
  — Lee O. Sanderlin, Baltimore Sun, 24 Feb. 2023
• Five were ZoneAlarm bait files, and the other three were unimportant ancillary files.
  — PCMAG, 30 July 2024
• The report alleges that some airlines charge ancillary fees that do not meet these criteria while also not paying the transportation tax on them.
  — Chad De Guzman, TIME, 27 Nov. 2024
• This allowed the researchers to encode the spin state at one end of the antimony atom’s spin sequence as a 0 and the spin state at the other end as a 1, with the six intermediate states serving as ancillary states.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 5 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 11 Mar 2025