PARENTHESES in a Sentence

Learn PARENTHESES from example sentences, some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

For PARENTHESES, below is one of 2 sentences:
It is well to parenthesize here, that of the fatal accidents in the Sperm-Whale Fishery, this kind is perhaps almost as frequent as any.

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 Meanings and Examples of PARENTHESES
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Classic Sentence:
1  It is well to parenthesize here, that of the fatal accidents in the Sperm-Whale Fishery, this kind is perhaps almost as frequent as any.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 71. The Jeroboam's Story.
Example Sentence:
1  The figures in parentheses refer to page numbers.