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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 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
• 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
• 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
• The Congolese were backward and ancillary to modern life, Papà learned in school.
  — Ngofeen Mputubwele, WIRED, 21 Aug. 2023
• Meek wasn’t accused of any misconduct and was an ancillary footnote of the lawsuit.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 29 Feb. 2024
• Coach Dave Simon chalked it up to the ancillary factors that accompany playing the first match of the season.
  — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 7 Sep. 2023
• The state has since changed its rules, and using grant money for those types of ancillary expenses is no longer allowed.
  — Marisa Kendall, The Mercury News, 18 Jan. 2024
• There was always one band playing at one of the two key stages at either end of the grounds, and in the later hours, a second band also playing on an ancillary stage.
  — Eric Fuller, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
• Venues often rely on those ancillary fees to help cover their costs.
  — Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 20 Nov. 2023
• Kemba Walker needed 19 shots to score 16 points in the victory, but frankly, such box-score notes become ancillary when the nets are cut down each April.
  — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 4 Apr. 2023
• To maximize the efficiency of the training, Porter has stripped out ancillary lessons.
  — Abe Streep, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2023
• The half-dozen cities that aren’t selected on Thursday, plus others who weren’t even finalists, could host ancillary events, team base camps and pre-World Cup friendlies.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 14 June 2022
• This summer, opera has returned to the main stage — an intimate 918-seat theater — but, to be cautious, no ancillary events were scheduled.
  — New York Times, 19 Aug. 2022
• Convenience Checking also doesn’t load up its fine print with a bunch of ancillary fees, either.
  — Martha C. White, wsj.com, 29 Oct. 2023
• The release of the princess’s book, with all its ancillary noise, following so hard on the very public bust-up with Barney Rosset, was hardly the auspicious start George had hoped for.
  — Thomas Harding, Town & Country, 29 Aug. 2023
• Should the Dodgers keep the eponymous name for their stadium, the presenting rights may not be worth that much, particularly with a lack of ancillary events such as the Grammys.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 19 Apr. 2022
• The business and ancillary businesses, this town, this state and tens of thousands will suffer tremendously.
  — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024