Example sentences for: boldface

How can you use “boldface” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In other words, if information type A is consistently set in italics, type B in bold-face italics, type C in small capitals, and type D in boldface roman, if type E always appears in single quotation marks, and so forth, one can use this information to extract discrete categories of data for a variety of purposes.

  • (Click here, and scroll down to the boldface type, to read it.)

  • I devised what I thought was a useful system for showing syllabification of boldface words in the Collins English Dictionary: places where hyphens could occur were marked by a tiny plus sign (except for spelling hyphens, which always permitted end-of-line hyphens); places that marked syllable breaks but where hyphenation was avoided, were marked by a centered dot:

  • The first instance concerns Bennett's discussion of teen-age pregnancy . Unlike unwed pregnancy, which is rising , teen pregnancy is sharply declining . But Bennett leads off his chapter on "Youth Behavior" with the shocking news, presented in large boldface type, that "[b]etween 1990 and 1996, the percentage of all teen-age mothers who are unmarried has increased 12 percent."

  • typeface (italics or boldface, say, to encourage the reader to accentuate the word);


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