Example sentences for: footnotes

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

  • Meanwhile, the psychometricians who dominate the footnotes of The Bell Curve are John Hunter, Arthur Jensen, Malcolm Ree, and Frank Schmidt.

  • As one who understands the importance of footnotes but loathes them because of their continual, unsightly interruption of normal reading, I applaud this treatment: they are there if you want them, but they do not intrude.

  • The structure of footnotes grew increasingly elaborate mainly because of the rediscovery during the Renaissance of a wealth of old documentary sources, along with the proliferation of new sources made possible by the printing press and the modern archive.

  • 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 .)

  • He identifies unavoidable references to Hiss only in footnotes, and finally presents their relationship in a brief flashback in the course of detailing the trials.


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