How to Use ancillary in a Sentence
ancillary
adjective- The company hopes to boost its sales by releasing ancillary products.
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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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