Example sentences for: footnotes

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

  • The amendments also require enhanced disclosure of accounting policies for derivative financial instruments and derivative commodity instruments in the footnotes to the financial statements.

  • This was a dictionary--a bizarre best seller--in which even the footnotes had footnotes, and whose pages, Grafton notes, "offer the reader only a thin and fragile crust of text on which to cross the deep, dark swamp of commentary."

  • The piece is bylined with pseudonyms but bears the unmistakable mark of comic novelist David Foster Wallace: excessive footnotes, excessive and nontraditional abbreviations, excessive and occasionally cloying self-consciousness, gratuitous use of Latin phrases, and employment of 10 cent words such as "cathedra," "synecdoche," and "clerestories."

  • Similarly, historical lexicography--the vocabulary of Shakespeare, Milton, Chaucer, Richard Rolle of Hampole, the Holinshed Chronicle, etc.--has been relegated to footnotes in student editions or to specialized dictionaries.

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


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