How to Use marginalia in a Sentence

marginalia

plural noun

• Some of their chats are printed as marginalia in the book.
  — Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2019
• My questions are: Who has the courage to say our kids don’t have time for such marginalia?
  — Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2021
• My marginalia became a series of handholds on the placid smoothness of the page.
  — New York Times, 2 Nov. 2021
• This common medieval practice of marginalia as a space for the delightful, the grotesque, and the zany is enchantingly Groff’s as well.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 2 Sep. 2021
• Progressing from scene to scene like a comic strip, the upper and lower bands are richly decorated with marginalia: Scenes from the fables of Aesop or of the pleasures of the hunt.
  — National Geographic, 6 Nov. 2020
• The strikethroughs and marginalia of Sylvia Plath’s manuscripts can deliver multiple monologues, showing us all that the finished poem leaves unsaid.
  — Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2022
• This space invites your contemplation and reactions to the text but not as marginalia, as full dialogue.
  — Michael Kleber-Diggs Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 4 Sep. 2020
• Its binding is broken and pages marked with marginalia and coffee stains from hours teaching in the lab—traces of a teacher inspiring the creativity of others.
  — Theresa McCulla, Smithsonian, 16 Sep. 2019
• In the marginalia of Destiny's storytelling, which is where most of its story craft up until now has resided, there's an event called the Great Disaster which looms large over the moon's history.
  — Wired, 3 Oct. 2019
• The edition is full of marginalia indicating that Ronald took a trip through the Veneto with this book, making notes about the 16th century architecture that dominates that region.
  — David Netto, Town & Country, 4 May 2018
• Scholars have preserved about 400 volumes that contain Stalin’s pometki—markings, notes and marginalia.
  — Michael O’Donnell, WSJ, 4 Feb. 2022
• All the while, Rumsfeld produced his proverbs, doodling mystic marginalia in the pages of history, reducing war and torture and other awful realities into blunt queries and gruff turns of phrase.
  — Washington Post, 1 July 2021
• These journal entries are sometimes incidental to a fault, lapsing at one point into marginalia about Ms. Morris’s bowel habits.
  — Danny Heitman, WSJ, 4 Jan. 2019
• Leading writers have striven to explain these marginalia as progressive.
  — Michael Marissen, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2018
• Both book and marginalia are acts of writing, collaborations between author and subject, text and reader — precisely the sort of communal-meaning making to which Barthes refers.
  — New York Times, 2 Nov. 2021
• And everything— from crap scheduling to dubious rain delays to the cancellation of Gemlife —becomes marginalia.
  — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 12 June 2019
• Bookmarking and highlighting remain the only counterparts to dogearing and marginalia.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2021
• The male novelist sends me his notes on Nietzsche, written during his undergraduate years, with his anxious marginalia listing which philosophers remained unmarried.
  — New York Times, 19 May 2020

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024