Example sentences for: footnotes

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

  • I was particularly disturbed, as a scholar, by the presence of invented footnotes for the fictional parts of the book.

  • 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 smooth perusal of the articles is aided by a minimum of footnotes (at the ends of the essays), with a detailed bibliography (pp. 205-21) at the back of the book, followed by a useful Index of the words discussed.

  • Its main fault lies in the reliance on extensive quotations from the works described, the sort of thing one expects to be paraphrased by a historian, with the original matter buried in footnotes.

  • In Modern English (1873), he harassed other self-proclaimed authorities, and, in both books, three or four lines of text float above a dense mass of footnotes in tightly set six-point type.


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