How to Use ancillary in a Sentence

ancillary

adjective
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  • The company hopes to boost its sales by releasing ancillary products.
  • The Heat have to compete at the ancillary positions, and likely have to win them.
    — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 28 Sep. 2020
  • Shortly thereafter, my wife quit the team and, sadly, many of the ancillary benefits declined as well.
    — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 28 Aug. 2020
  • 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 lack of symptoms also provides ancillary benefits, given that there seems to be a risk of long-term damage as indicated by lingering symptoms.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 26 Aug. 2020
  • And genre movies work very well in the ancillary space as well.
    — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • 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 | Mwake@al.com, al, 9 Feb. 2022
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • Olsen and Burkhardt might be the best ancillary underdog story of this season.
    — Chad Finn, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Feb. 2023
  • And with more people comes more stress on all of the ancillary services the center provides — more loads of laundry, more showers, more meals at the soup kitchen.
    — Emily Goodykoontz, Anchorage Daily News, 30 July 2022
  • Those efforts failed and the costs of ancillary services remain spread out across the grid, with each Texan paying their small part for the reserves.
    — Dallas News, 10 Feb. 2022
  • At a town hall meeting on Monday, Mr. Iger said Disney needs to spend more wisely on content and the ancillary costs that come with it.
    — Robbie Whelan, WSJ, 1 Dec. 2022
  • There’s more of a crossover in our adult lives, from ancillary friendships that have brought us together.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2024
  • And in fact, even some of the ancillary markets that were typical for movies being made in those days, such as cable television, didn’t want our movies.
    — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 July 2024

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