Example sentences for: footnotes

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

  • In law, the analysis of footnotes even sustains a new minor discipline, "citology."

  • More than one call it "Altman lite" (Jack Mathews, the Daily News ) and say "[t]he fabled Altman atmosphere fails to jell" (Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). A small cadre is seriously disappointed: "another footnote to an Altman career that is fast becoming all footnotes" (Richard Corliss, Time ) or, more simply, "[h]e falters again" (Stanley Kauffmann, the New Republic ). (For more on director Robert Altman, visit this site, which has links to interviews and essays about him, and read Edelstein's review Friday in Slate .)

  • Source references will be provided in the nonauthoritative paragraphs as footnotes to permit more descriptive identification of the sources.

  • The biggest concessions to make the presentation more palatable for the general reader is the elimination of footnote references within the text: even superior numbers do not appear in the text, and those who demand footnotes must refer to a brief Appendix where they are arranged, chapter by chapter, with clear page references.

  • Critics applaud performances by Rip Torn ( The Larry Sanders Show ) and Shirley Knight as a middle-aged Houston couple mourning their son's death: "They get all the small regional footnotes of gesture and inflection just right.


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