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.
• 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
• There is also a chance that the lever could be bumped incidentally.
  — Megan Boettcher, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 July 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• And that period contributed to a lot of the business that’s flown—and the Chinese’s very high regard for the UK, incidentally.
  — Annabelle Timsit, Quartz, 17 May 2021
• Which, incidentally, is what the world has been craving.
  — Sloane Crosley, Town & Country, 23 Jan. 2022
• This was, incidentally, the same Celtics team that had lost its last two games and was playing the second game of a back-to-back after losing to the Clippers on Monday night.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2022
• All this in the blink of an eye—which, incidentally, also takes about 150 milliseconds.
  — Jeremy White, WIRED, 9 May 2024
• That should fix it in your granddaughter’s mind, and incidentally give you an edge over Bobbie.
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 21 June 2022
• For many years, the infield has been a stage for fun, frolic and, not incidentally, drunken shenanigans.
  — Mike Hembree, USA TODAY, 23 June 2020
• Nets surrounding the corn are simply pulled up and the carp are captured with very few — less than 1 in 100 — native fish incidentally taken in the nets.
  — Greg Stanley, Star Tribune, 30 Jan. 2021
• The series, incidentally, coincides with the brothers’ third time seeking a habeas hearing, a first step in having their sentence reduced to time served.
  — Kevin Dolak, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Sep. 2024
• Not just incidentally, Tan now has all of the general managers of VMware’s lines of business reporting directly to him.
  — Patrick Moorhead, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024