Example sentences for: footnotes

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

  • The only health statement the bureau has said it will accept is a four page government report, complete with 34 footnotes.

  • Its main fault lies in the reliance on extensive quotations from the works described, the sort of thing one expects to be paraphrased by a historian, with the original matter buried in footnotes.

  • Historians, as burdened by footnotes and data as biographers, seldom devote more than five years to a book.

  • In Modern English (1873), he harassed other self-proclaimed authorities, and, in both books, three or four lines of text float above a dense mass of footnotes in tightly set six-point type.

  • A similar invisible line separates the campaign-finance violations that become major media scandals and those that go unmentioned or rate only as footnotes in the press.


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