How to Use ancillary in a Sentence

ancillary

adjective
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  • The company hopes to boost its sales by releasing ancillary products.
  • With so many questions, funding was an ancillary issue.
    — Michael R. Gordon, WSJ, 12 July 2018
  • There are other people doing more ancillary jobs on it and then there are people that are doing other projects on it.
    — Eric Johnson, Recode, 3 Sep. 2018
  • Thus far, those things have included ancillary businesses and revenue streams.
    — Bryan Bishop, The Verge, 3 Oct. 2018
  • And Musk has ancillary enterprises that lay the groundwork.
    — Kevin Dupzyk, Popular Mechanics, 24 Oct. 2018
  • Food, a checked bag, and your seat assignment have all become ancillary revenue to help airlines maximize profit.
    — Aditi Shrikant, Vox, 27 Nov. 2018
  • For so long, the film industry has only been able to conceive of black, brown, and Asian woman as ancillary parts to white narratives.
    — Kyndall Cunningham, Glamour, 22 Jan. 2019
  • There’s a central dining room that serves all three meals, plus ancillary outdoor breakfast spots, specialty dinners, a smoothie bar, two specialty coffee spots.
    — Larry Olmsted, Forbes, 14 Dec. 2024
  • Much of the fundraising now is going toward necessary infrastructure ancillary to the balloon, such as the mast, a baseplate, and foundation anchors.
    — Alex Bazeley, Curbed, 5 July 2018
  • Couple this with other ancillary financial benefits of having Amazon in New York and this is clearly a net benefit to the city.
    — WSJ, 18 Nov. 2018
  • And genre movies work very well in the ancillary space as well.
    — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Feb. 2023
  • What the Heat need now is to find out how some of the ancillary pieces fit.
    — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 5 Nov. 2019
  • 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
  • Those ancillary upgrades are nice, but the big changes are still the chips.
    — Antonio G. Di Benedetto, The Verge, 30 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • Even books require a host of ancillary staff to publish.
    — Lionel Shriver, Harper's magazine, 10 Feb. 2019
  • The final season of his landmark series lost its big star — seemingly along with Sheridan’s own enthusiasm — and, as its ancillary series expanded, his domain seemed to move further away from the rolling vistas of Montana.
    — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 20 Dec. 2024
  • By diversifying his activities within the industry (creating infrastructure and ancillary services that provided a stable income stream), he was afforded the time to do exactly that.
    — Lela London, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025

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