How to Use and so on in a Sentence

and so on

phrase
  • Some bars are clean but high-sugar, others have great macros but ‘dirty labels’ and so on.
    — Jess Cording, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
  • Ten was of course too many, what with the addition of camp helpers, assistants, aides and so on.
    — Paul Schullery, Outdoor Life, 13 Aug. 2026
  • After paying it off, move on to the second-smallest balance and so on.
    — Mallika Mitra, Sacbee.com, 24 Aug. 2026
  • That jumper pulls out a second name, and so on, and from the list flows all the serendipity of the fire season.
    — M. R. O’Connor, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026
  • Get ready to give your immediate response on which shapes look more appealing, and so on.
    — Jordan Minor, PC Magazine, 29 July 2026
  • There might be a technical director, a head of performance, and so on.
    — Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Tier 1 is most likely, Tier 2 is competitive but less so, and so on.
    — Maham Javaid, NPR, 27 July 2026
  • Wages, signing-on bonuses, agent fees and so on all inflate a total costing far beyond the club-to-club number.
    — Kaya Kaynak, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2026
  • The first ingredient listed is the one the product contains the most of, followed by the second, and so on.
    — Jillian Kubala, Health, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Media coverage of Nadal is all about his tennis, the intensity of his game and so on.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 19 Aug. 2026
  • Bugs, Daffy, Elmer Fudd and so on — entering and exiting stage left.
    — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Instead of jotting down vague areas like kitchen counters, break it into bite-sized tasks—kitchen island, counter to the left of the stove, and so on.
    — Marisa Suzanne Martin, The Spruce, 16 July 2026
  • One example, a little bit more concrete, is Asian pop culture and anime, manga and so on.
    — Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 24 Aug. 2026
  • There were new artists emerging who were sort of pure electronic artists like Kraftwerk and Gary Numan and so on.
    — Peter Larsen, Daily News, 14 July 2026
  • If an episode set in the desert emphasizes orange, the next might lean toward the green of the rainforest, followed by the white of snow, and so on.
    — Matthew Jacobs, HollywoodReporter, 17 Aug. 2026
  • So do scheme, personnel groupings, whether a team has a young starting quarterback or some young starters on the offensive line, and so on.
    — Nicki Jhabvala, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Stripe for payments, Gusto for payroll, Ramp or Brex for corporate spend and so on.
    — Alex Lazarow, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
  • There are complaints about a lack of Greek actors, awkward trailer dialogue, odd costuming and so on.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
  • Data gets scattered across enterprise resource planning systems, spreadsheets, email and so on.
    — Andrew Zhyvolovych, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Too often, nonprofits treat companies like banks, leading with low-value sponsorships and so on.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026
  • For many years, we’ve been focused on Google’s next move, Google’s algorithm updates, its search engine results pages and so on.
    — Jason Bland, Forbes.com, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Leave it to Martha Stewart, 85, and Rihanna, 38, to make loungewear look posh and so on trend.
    — Cheryl Wagemann, InStyle, 31 Aug. 2026
  • This range is likely a best-case figure, though; real-world performance will depend on terrain, rider weight, loading, weather, and so on.
    — New Atlas, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Policies relating to residency, taxes, banking, currencies, and so on change all the time.
    — Kathleen Peddicord, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • The acoustic shock waves may strike soft soil, hard rock, various forms of human infrastructure, and so on, each of which will affect how energy gets transmitted.
    — John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Smaller groups are also subject to discounts—parties of seven can score 54% off all tickets, groups of six can take 47% off all tickets, and so on.
    — Jessica Chapel, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Eventually that carbon will begin to fuse into neon, then the neon will fuse into magnesium, and so on up the periodic table until iron builds up in the core.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 14 Aug. 2026
  • This intermediary text is then fed back through all the layers again to create the next steps, and so on, until the model reaches its final answer and outputs the answer text.
    — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2026
  • All married couples get on the dance floor and are asked to step off if they’ve been married less than 1 year, then 5 years, and so on until only the couple married the longest remains.
    — Ashlyn Robinette, PEOPLE, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Physicians are used to a strict hierarchy in medical school, where medical students report to interns, interns report to residents and so on.
    — Nishtha Sareen, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026

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