How to Use ancillary in a Sentence

ancillary

adjective
  • The company hopes to boost its sales by releasing ancillary products.
  • Those ancillary upgrades are nice, but the big changes are still the chips.
    Antonio G. Di Benedetto, The Verge, 30 Oct. 2024
  • To make things worse, ancillary programs that are crucial for good health are also on the chopping block.
    Simon F. Haeder, The Conversation, 21 Feb. 2020
  • The decrease is attributed to a reduction in unit sales and ancillary revenue.
    Quartz Bot, Quartz, 14 Nov. 2024
  • The Mandarin program is an ancillary after-school program for kids ages 4 and up that parents pay extra for.
    Jamie Swinnerton, Houston Chronicle, 10 Feb. 2020
  • Surprisingly, the strongest aspects here are almost ancillary to the theme.
    Charlie Theel, Ars Technica, 11 Jan. 2020
  • The automobile sector, which again helps the growth of ancillary industries, has been facing a downhill slope in the past couple of years.
    S. Gopikrishna Warrier, Quartz India, 20 Jan. 2020
  • The Apprentice hopes to hold screens through the elections, fueling a rosier ancillary future that would be helped by nominations.
    Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Fulfilling this role is hard enough without distractions from ancillary political and social issues.
    Wayne Winegarden, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
  • The pressure to plan ahead has led to the growth of all sorts of other ancillary services too, from leadership development to board-effectiveness assessment.
    The Economist, 6 Feb. 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
  • The Heat have to compete at the ancillary positions, and likely have to win them.
    Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 28 Sep. 2020
  • 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
  • Most of the ancillary folks wore medical masks, from the mascots to the team’s dance squad to the base coaches, umpires and reporters.
    Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 7 May 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
  • 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 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

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