Example sentences for: grafton

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

  • Grafton's book begins by considering the historians Edward Gibbon and Leopold von Ranke, who in their own ways raised the historical footnote to a level of high art both as a citational resource and a rhetorical outlet.

  • 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."

  • "Scholars," Grafton explains, "have placed the birth of the footnote in the twelfth century, the seventeenth, the eighteenth, and the nineteenth--never without good reason but usually without attending to the other chapters in this story."

  • Pedestrian Grafton Street is lined with well-known stores such as Marks and Spencer, the Body Shop, HMV records, and Laura Ashley.

  • [From a Paladin/Grafton book advertisement in The Guardian , n.d.


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