How to Use incidental in a Sentence

incidental

1 of 2 adjective

• You may incur some incidental expenses on the trip.
• He writes incidental music for plays.
• The shrimp are nice but almost incidental; for me, this dish is all about the sauce.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Sep. 2022
• For him, being gay is incidental to his work on the board.
  — Teo Armus, Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2022
• Indeed, the deeper the book plunges, the more incidental the singers end up feeling.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 28 June 2022
• This fact wasn’t incidental; empire was central to the causes and course of the war.
  — Daniel Immerwahr, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2022
• The records do not prove whether the counterfeits caused the complaints or might have been incidental to the report.
  — Alexander Tin, CBS News, 7 Nov. 2023
• In 1973, in the throes of the Cold War, the notion that nations and ideologies would be incidental might have seemed like the stuff of pulpy sci-fi.
  — John Semley, WIRED, 16 Feb. 2023
• That many of them happen to be white men is incidental.
  — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2022
• The action is set on the heels of a plague, but any resonance with the present seems purely incidental.
  — Naveen Kumar, Variety, 17 Nov. 2023
• Feig seems adrift in a movie where the comedy is incidental rather than the driving force.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Oct. 2022
• The fact that Miles and Gwen also shoot webs and swing around skyscrapers is incidental to their emotional arcs in the film.
  — Maya Phillips, New York Times, 1 June 2023
• To Dorsey, the fact that Twitter creates a record of the world would be an incidental byproduct of all this status-sharing.
  — Willy Staley, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2023
• Or was that sort of incidental to the package, and maybe a lot of them didn’t even really realize about it?
  — Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 6 June 2023
• The play was reviewed and ruled incidental contact as Jones was looking to get around Ayton to pick up Paul full court.
  — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 20 Apr. 2022
• Researchers who study those trends say that’s not the case, and that the rise of incidental hospitalizations is a more recent trend.
  — Drew Armstrong, BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2022
• Every hotel charges a refundable incidental fee, in addition to the price of the room plus tax.
  — Essence, 27 Apr. 2022
• This is incidental in the big picture, but Smith is doing more than merely walking.
  — Ron Kroichick, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Feb. 2022
• Both were calls where the actual hit was more incidental to the play than deliberate.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2023
• For all the incidental pass interference calls that occur in a game, this move directly caused the play.
  — Doug Lesmerises, cleveland, 25 Dec. 2021
• But those results were incidental to determine the winner in those days.
  — Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2024
• In an Instagram photo, Frankel, 51, captured the incidental meet-up on an airplane, of all places.
  — Kelly Wynne, PEOPLE.com, 21 June 2022
• Bernstein’s view makes the artist’s life incidental: What matters is what comes out of a composition, not what goes into it.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 19 Nov. 2022
• Previously, a spokesman for Mr. Cuomo said state aides volunteered their time to work on the book and any use of state resources was incidental.
  — Jimmy Vielkind, WSJ, 17 Dec. 2021
• Her gesture is so spontaneous, her smile so broad, that her nun’s habit is almost incidental.
  — Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2023
• The talent level is so high that the casting feels less conceptual and more incidental.
  — James Frankie Thomas, Vulture, 6 Oct. 2022
• The problems that have occurred have been incidental, though still very important.
  — Baltimore Sun, 18 May 2022
• TikTok had the bigger impact; this being synth-pop is incidental to its success.
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 15 Feb. 2022
• An item that is purchased online and returned in-store may generate incidental sales that won’t show up as e-commerce.
  — Greg Petro, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
• Revenue generation should not be the goal and any revenue generated for the city should be considered incidental.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Nov. 2023

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incidental

2 of 2 noun

• There have been good salmon sign and some incidentals caught and released, so the August 15 opener looks promising.
  — Sacbee, sacbee.com, 3 July 2017
• The balance of the price would be for contingencies and incidentals.
  — Hillary Davis, latimes.com, 23 Mar. 2018
• And that didn't even include incidentals like rushed meals on the road or paying for sitters to sometimes drive her to practice.
  — Janine Boldrin, Good Housekeeping, 6 July 2017
• Stick with credit To finance a trip, most families choose a form of payment for food and incidentals ahead of time.
  — Kat Hnatyshyn, kansascity, 14 June 2017
• The AmEx Platinum gives an annual $200 credit for the airline of your choice to cover incidentals like bag fees, drinks, and meals on board.
  — Ryan Craggs, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 July 2018
• Travis and his parents lugged his stuff—clothing, a small refrigerator, a 17-inch flat screen, and incidentals—up a flight of stairs to the second floor.
  — Nick Ehrmann, The Atlantic, 15 May 2017
• In the meantime, her program provides them with up to $695 a month for utilities, housing and incidentals.
  — Jim Ryan, OregonLive.com, 30 Oct. 2017
• That includes tuition, room and board and books, plus a cost of attendance stipend to cover incidentals such as travel.
  — Ralph D. Russo, The Seattle Times, 3 Sep. 2018
• Winner may be required to present a valid credit card upon check-in at hotels to cover incidentals that are not included in the Grand Prize.
  — CNN, 12 June 2018
• The cost to send so many teams to playoff locales, venue rentals, travel expenses and incidentals for that many players, coaches and training staff can mount.
  — Randy Sachs, star-telegram, 19 June 2017
• More than cheese: Beyond the gourmet treats and incidentals that line the shop, the Village Cheese Shop offers classes and an annual farm dinner in summer, among other events.
  — Carol Deptolla, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 Jan. 2020
• Additional perks: In the event of a travel delay, the CSP offers $500-a-day coverage for hotels, meals, and incidentals.
  — Emily Long, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Feb. 2020
• Three neighbors started a GoFundMe page to help the family with incidentals.
  — Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 25 Apr. 2017
• Available in matte black and gray, or champagne pink and black, the backpacks feature a 15-inch padded laptop sleeve, padded back, and front zipper pocket for your wallet, keys, and other incidentals.
  — Necee Regis, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2018
• Funeral costs continue to climb, as do prices for funeral plots and incidentals many people don't know about.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 22 Jan. 2020
• The reasons for the move are simple: a lower cost of living, from homes and groceries to gas and incidentals, plus expanding industries, specifically in tech.
  — Allie Beth Allman & Associates, Dallas News, 8 Aug. 2023
• Everyone covered their own meals and incidentals out of pocket.
  — Aaron Gell, Vanities, 2 Apr. 2018
• This total doesn’t include most meals, in-city transportation or incidentals (such as college sweatshirts).
  — cleveland, 23 Feb. 2020
• After paying for utilities, medical bills, laundry and other incidentals, she’s left with about $200 a month for food, clothing and anything else that pops up.
  — Kevin Fagan, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Apr. 2018
• Here, too, the movie offers plenty of charming household incidentals, as with Amara’s desire to take up boxing and Adonis’s willingness to teach her behind Bianca’s back.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2023
• Taxes and fees, air fare, shore excursions and incidentals onboard are the responsibility of the winner.
  — Bon Appétit, Bon Appetit, 27 Mar. 2017
• Remaining funds of the collection are earmarked to help fund a photo memory book for the Loosa family and other incidentals, Donnelly said.
  — Karie Angell Luc, chicagotribune.com, 20 June 2017
• The company has paid for incidentals associated with the trip, including a hotel room in Dearborn, meals and a tuxedo for the auto show's formal charity ball.
  — Phoebe Wall Howard, chicagotribune.com, 6 Feb. 2018
• In August, all members will also begin earning points for food and beverage purchases and qualifying incidentals, rather than just the room rate.
  — Nancy Trejos, USA TODAY, 20 Apr. 2018
• Customers pay a monthly access fee, hourly fee, fuel adjustments, plus incidentals.
  — Doug Gollan, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2023
• Beyond hotel stays, city employees in Surprise and other metro Phoenix cities receive daily allowances to cover meals and incidentals when traveling.
  — Perry Vandell, azcentral, 16 Apr. 2018
• It was eventually deemed harmless, and inside investigators found a Bible, some papers, and a small machete, among other incidentals.
  — Aaron Gell, Longreads, 9 Apr. 2018
• Hatch noted this doesn’t cover associated costs like books, travel to campus or other incidentals.
  — Elizabeth Hernandez, The Denver Post, 27 Aug. 2019
• Ground transportation, meals, in-room or other personal charges at lodging (e.g., mini-bar, movies), telephone calls, gratuities, incidentals, and all other expenses are not included.
  — Kwasi Boadi, Billboard, 24 Aug. 2019
• The various forms of content disorientingly overlap—the professional with the amateur, the intentional with the incidental.
  — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2022

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024