How to Use footnote in a Sentence

footnote

noun
Definition of footnotenext
Synonyms for footnotenext
  • 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 | McAsagrande@al.com, 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
  • De Erdely is a curious footnote in the avant-garde story of postwar L.A. art.
    — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2022

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