Example sentences for: boldface

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

  • 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."

  • set in a type (as boldface) readily distinguishable from that of the lightface running text which defines, explains, or identifies the entry

  • That is called WYSIWYG, pronounced “wizzywig,” for `What You See Is What You Get,' in other words when you designate text to print in boldface or italic type, it appears in boldface or italic type on the screen.

  • The notion of entry, as described many times in these pages, includes (1) head-word,(2) inflected forms (which, in the sole case of the MW-III , includes regular inflections, which pumps up the entry count considerably), (3) changes in parts of speech, (4) embedded boldface entries (like idioms and phrases), (5) run-on forms (those that are added at the ends of entries to illustrate headwords with suffixes of transparent meaning added, e.g., national and nationally run on to nation and nationalization run on to nationalize , (6) spelling variants (like British honour, nationalise, nationalisation , etc.).

  • The term dictionary entry includes all vocabulary entries as well as all boldface entries in the separate sections of the back matter headed “Abbreviations and Symbols for Chemical Elements,” “Foreign Words and Phrases,” “Biographical Names,” “Geographical Names,” and “Colleges and Universities.”


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