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Example sentences for: boldface
How can you use “boldface” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
set in a type (as boldface) readily distinguishable from that of the lightface running text which defines, explains, or identifies the entry
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.
They are so lonely, our dying cities,specks on the vast familiar map that looks like a side of beef,in boldface or marked with a circled dot,ringed by their beltways, linked into nameless constellations by the interstates.Some are red giants, spreading and cooling in the smoggy dusk,others dwarfs with dense shrunken coresor black holes so involuted they swallow the light around them.
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."
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.).
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