How to Use footnote in a Sentence

footnote

1 of 2 noun

• In one footnote, Lewis seems to throw up his hands at the prospect.
  — Julia M. Klein, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2023
• Of course, that would be just a footnote to the bigger picture.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2022
• The same footnote refers incorrectly to the show’s run.
  — New York Times, 18 Sep. 2022
• Take time to read the footnotes in those credit card agreements.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 5 Mar. 2024
• The footnote referred to a recent news story about the months-long wait for the Black farmer license.
  — Dara Kam, Sun Sentinel, 8 Sep. 2022
• Reader note: Click the footnote numbers to jump to note; from there, click the numbers again to return to the story.
  — Benjamin, Longreads, 20 May 2022
• WIth those footnotes out of the way, you can get started with running apps on both platforms.
  — David Nield, Popular Science, 10 Jan. 2024
• Alabama … well, its 9-2 month of May come with a few footnotes.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 24 May 2023
• But the state has not granted the license, which Bilbrey cited in a footnote.
  — Dara Kam, Sun Sentinel, 8 Sep. 2022
• Within minutes, though, the sprint was a footnote to the dash’s swaggy ending.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2022
• But she was rarely mentioned as anything more than a footnote.
  — Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 3 Aug. 2023
• But even after the Meisel showing, Boobis remains a footnote in the modern art world.
  — Joshua Needelman, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2023
• In a footnote, Smith even cites Trump's visit to a gun store and online comments about buying a 9mm.
  — Fox News, 5 Oct. 2023
• In one sense, Somalia has long been a footnote in the United States’ war on terror.
  — Sarah Harrison, Foreign Affairs, 28 Sep. 2023
• Petri knows her stuff – readers are advised to check out the footnotes – and some of the most absurd flights of history are, in fact, true.
  — Yvonne Zipp, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 June 2023
• Jeanne du Barry may end up being a footnote in the history of Cannes.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 17 May 2023
• Then to have my name, even as a footnote, is phenomenal.
  — Will Hagle, Rolling Stone, 10 Apr. 2023
• Russell’s 33-game stint with the Golden State Warriors amounts to little more than a footnote.
  — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 May 2023
• Or that fun run of a regular season will be a footnote for what followed.
  — Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 7 May 2022
• High jumping should have been a strange footnote in the career of Mathis, who at age 86 is back on the road, in his 66th year as a touring performer.
  — Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Apr. 2022
• That proved a footnote to a mission that thrilled Americans and Russians alike.
  — Richard Goldstein, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2024
• Texas is all about football, high school, college and pros and the Astros often feel like a footnote outside of Minute Maid Field.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Nov. 2022
• Still, the nonwhite men and women of all races who were a part of this large chapter of history shouldn’t be reduced to footnotes.
  — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 11 Aug. 2023
• Still, the diminished sea ice of today allowed for a final footnote to the story.
  — David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Feb. 2023
• Oldroyd’s misses are now just a footnote in BYU’s win over Baylor.
  — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Sep. 2022
• There was a time when the Group of Seven (G7), the assembly of wealthy nations, was consigned to the footnote of global governance.
  — Vasuki Shastry, Forbes, 24 June 2022
• The performance helped turn a forgettable part of Tatum’s night into a footnote.
  — Adam Himmelsbach, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Dec. 2022
• That Houston lost forward J’Wan Roberts to fouls, and had three other starters finish with four fouls, turned out to be merely a footnote.
  — The New York Times, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2023
• But Tatum’s closing kick ensured that this mild comeback would be nothing more than a footnote.
  — Adam Himmelsbach, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Nov. 2022
• These are not the first time that it has been recommended that Black men get tested earlier, but as Dr. Oh explains, with other guidelines this was often a footnote rather than the main aim of the work.
  — Victoria Forster, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024

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footnote

2 of 2 verb

• This point alone should be a lodestar of the hearings: Elections matter for the court, even if most of what the court does is obfuscated and footnoted.
  — Neil S. Siegel, Slate Magazine, 1 Feb. 2017
• So there is our celebration, much of it biblically inspired, even if not always footnoted.
  — Rick Hamlin and Bloomberg, charlotteobserver, 22 Dec. 2017
• Those who bothered to read all four hundred and forty-eight pages discovered a gripping document, painstakingly footnoted and verified.
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 24 July 2019
• Given that data analytics have changed under the new standard, investors need to look beyond financial statement footnotes to grasp the proper disclosures, Ms. Peters said.
  — Mark Maurer, WSJ, 10 July 2019
• Indeed, perhaps the only true consensus in the Trinity Lutheran decision is that its fragile and heavily footnoted majority will be tested soon.
  — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 June 2017
• Based mainly on secondary sources, but thoroughly footnoted, Crawford’s book proceeds from curiosity to curiosity, often jumping back and forth between recent history and the distant past.
  — The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 20 Apr. 2017
• This point alone should be a lodestar of the hearings: Elections matter for the court, even if most of what the court does is obfuscated and footnoted.
  — Neil S. Siegel, Slate Magazine, 1 Feb. 2017
• So there is our celebration, much of it biblically inspired, even if not always footnoted.
  — Rick Hamlin and Bloomberg, charlotteobserver, 22 Dec. 2017
• Those who bothered to read all four hundred and forty-eight pages discovered a gripping document, painstakingly footnoted and verified.
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 24 July 2019
• Given that data analytics have changed under the new standard, investors need to look beyond financial statement footnotes to grasp the proper disclosures, Ms. Peters said.
  — Mark Maurer, WSJ, 10 July 2019
• Indeed, perhaps the only true consensus in the Trinity Lutheran decision is that its fragile and heavily footnoted majority will be tested soon.
  — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 June 2017
• Based mainly on secondary sources, but thoroughly footnoted, Crawford’s book proceeds from curiosity to curiosity, often jumping back and forth between recent history and the distant past.
  — The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 20 Apr. 2017

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