Example sentences for: footnotes

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • In his Preface the author disarmingly tells us that “the footnotes are for reference only’ and that “anything worth saying has been said in the body of the text.

  • 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.

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


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