Used in a Sentence

incidentally

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for incidentally.

Editorial note

Incidentally the book costs less at retail, then even the lowest tier of it's Kickstarter campaign.

Examples20
Definitions3
Parts of speech1

Quick take

(manner) In an incidental manner; not of central or critical importance.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of incidentally gathered in one view.

adverb

(manner) In an incidental manner; not of central or critical importance.

adverb

By chance; in an unplanned way.

adverb

(speech act, conjunctive) Parenthetically, by the way.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for incidentally.

Example sentences

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Incidentally the book costs less at retail, then even the lowest tier of it's Kickstarter campaign.

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Incidentally, Ruby is great for beginners thanks to its expressiveness.

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Incidentally, one of the features Windows had in 2k and XP that was off by default in Vista, and lost completely in Win7, is a network status icon that shows when the OS is sending/receiving data.

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And you're right I left that dystopian comment vague -- let me clarify, having a large private monopoly own a necessary piece of transportation infrastructure is my idea of a dystopia, incidentally especially when their business model is built around using ownership of the name and app to exploit people who really need to use it (i.e.

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Government employees don't live in the lap of luxury by any means regularly they are generally poorly paid (that's why they swap between corporate rep and regulator, the regulator role doesn't pay well), it's the proximity to corporate wealth/corruption that's incidentally getting them nice accommodations.

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The middle age has actually seen slavery disappearing from Europe, which is incidentally why slaves had to be taken from somewhere else to bring to the "new world".

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Incidentally, many women had it a lot better that I (they were popular, attractive, outgoing, talkative, ...).

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Incidentally, what would China want with personal records of US government employees?

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But why would I change it if I wanted Google, which incidentally is, I'm sure, what most people want?

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Incidentally: drug testing is something you and I could bitch together about way into the night.

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This is incidentally why I run a hefty firewall for outgoing traffic and most endpoints can't access the internet at all.

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Incidentally, app and video sales begin in approximately the same period and fill in to maintain total growth -- no one ever accused Apple of being stupid.

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Incidentally, writing a scheme interpreter was one of the last projects of the course.

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Incidentally, observation #4 tends to also exist for being a crack cocaine dealer; from what I understand, it pays well and has excellent job security, so long as you can dodge the fuzz sufficiently well.

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(Which, incidentally, is very different from where the default Xcode templates might lead you).

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Are you saying that if one uses a criterion that incidentally correlates with race that is racism?

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Incidentally, the main point of the original article was to out the author as a woman.

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Incidentally, when you recognize that the limited partner side of the equation is more important than the startup side of the equation, it's not surprising that venture capital has a herd mentality and there are few true cowboys making bold bets.

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Lapham's Quarterly , incidentally, is fantastic.

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Incidentally, this is where you'll hear about 'hidden' job opportunities.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use incidentally in a sentence?

Incidentally the book costs less at retail, then even the lowest tier of it's Kickstarter campaign.

What does incidentally mean?

(manner) In an incidental manner; not of central or critical importance.

What part of speech is incidentally?

incidentally is commonly used as adverb.