“If there is no other right parenthesis except the outermost one, format control reverts to the left parenthesis at the beginning of the format specification.”

“The order and number of words in our translations will uniformly correspond with the text, and when the meaning is not sufficiently clear it is explained in parenthesis.”

“When the waiter arrived at the table to serve coffee, a parenthesis of silence settled over the table.”

“Psychoeducational groups for paren ts can help parents tolerate their own emotions and improve their communication with their children.”

“Sales' growth in subsidiaries proves unrelated to pay and significantly different from that relation in paren companies.”

“Simi Valley officials recently gave Valencia resident Dusttin Paren a commendation for helping Simi Valley police arrest Chartier.”

“It's like when I idiotically put two or three parentheticals inside each other rather than doing the normal thing and writing out separate sentences!”

“Thus, one crucial feature of pragmatic markers and parentheticals has been claimed to be that they are movable while sentence adverbials are not.”

“Programming languages often consist of a seemingly random usage of parentheses, brackets, asterisks, slashes, colons and semi-colons.”

“Each taxon represents a single species, except where the number of taxa is given in parentheses.”

“An additional delivery surcharge is shown in parentheses next to the price.”

“When I'm editing a Perl script it adds the tags and checks the parens.”

“Mater omnium hominum, parens omnibus subveniens, in Renier, Inscr.”

“The law courts' jurisdiction over the guardianship of children is said to have come from the King's prerogative of parens patriae.”