Example sentences for: footnotes

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

  • But as someone who read a vast amount of what had been written about Diana, conducted 150 interviews (many with her intimates), and included 60 pages of detailed footnotes, I find it dismaying that Slate would run such a disingenuous review.

  • And I realized that, had Simon followed Lerner's advice and started writing musicals, we'd have had to get to the theater at 10:30 in the morning to read up on the textual footnotes.

  • The book seeks to explain how footnotes became an essential element of the "narrative architecture" of historical writing.

  • 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."

  • Morris' footnotes cite only a few stray magazine articles, a book on Nixon's welfare reform efforts that makes none of the claims that Morris does, and, significantly, Charles Murray's Losing Ground .


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