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Example sentences for: boldface
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The boldface headwords, alas in sansserif type (making it difficult to read words like Pilling, pillion, pilliwinkle, Illinois , etc., because the lower-case i resembles lower-case l , which is hard to distinguish from capital I ), are followed by pronunciations printed in blue, with variants in black, an expensive but worthwhile idea that works if you are not reading in a dim light.
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:
I have two goals in life: 1) Make millions by launching a Web site called "getkidssmoking.com" (got the idea this morning after discussing the whole smoking TV show thing with you), and 2) see my name in boldface on the gossip page of the News . I think goal No.
typeface (italics or boldface, say, to encourage the reader to accentuate the word);
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