How to Use footnote in a Sentence

footnote

1 of 2 noun

• That gap shouldn’t be a footnote.
  — Aditi Kantipuly, STAT, 17 Mar. 2026
• The reunion tour is but a footnote to the saga.
  — Jesse Adams, The Washington Examiner, 19 Sep. 2025
• There’s not going to be any footnote at the end of the episode.
  — Dana Harris-Bridson, IndieWire, 2 June 2026
• But the devil is in the footnotes.
  — PC Magazine, 13 Aug. 2025
• That’s not a footnote to the story.
  — Zachary Utz, STAT, 15 May 2026
• In one footnote, Lewis seems to throw up his hands at the prospect.
  — Julia M. Klein, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2023
• There’s time for this seven-week stretch to be a mere footnote.
  — Zack Meisel, New York Times, 13 May 2026
• At least, not without a ton of footnotes, caveats and fine print.
  — Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2025
• Some even have footnotes — which, of course, are also made up.
  — Frank Landymore, Futurism, 13 May 2026
• Give me raiders of the lost past, any day, and forgive them their lack of footnotes.
  — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2026
• This attack is more than a footnote in the news cycle.
  — Zainab Chaudry, Baltimore Sun, 22 May 2026
• Of course, that would be just a footnote to the bigger picture.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2022
• But she was rarely mentioned as anything more than a footnote.
  — Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 3 Aug. 2023
• The quieter news sits in the footnotes about how those figures get made.
  — Dara-Abasi Ita, Forbes.com, 13 June 2026
• Take time to read the footnotes in those credit card agreements.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 5 Mar. 2024
• Storage is no longer a footnote in that story.
  — David Noy, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
• However long this goes, there will be a footnote.
  — Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Oct. 2025
• At best, the story is a minor footnote.
  — ArsTechnica, 22 May 2026
• That was relayed through a one-sentence footnote.
  — Robert Hart, The Verge, 9 June 2026
• But these days, my optimism comes with footnotes.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 9 Jan. 2026
• The result is a lot of footnotes that support nearly all her claims.
  — Literary Hub, 18 Dec. 2025
• For a business the size of Unilever, Graze was a mere footnote.
  — Sam Birchall, Fortune, 10 June 2026
• None of this came with footnotes, but all of it claimed authority.
  — Jan Steyn, The Dial, 10 Mar. 2026
• Losing your mom is never a footnote to your story.
  — Literary Hub, 13 Nov. 2025
• The wider support was mentioned in the footnotes of a press release.
  — PC Magazine, 17 Sep. 2025
• The wider support was mentioned in the footnotes of a press release.
  — PC Magazine, 10 Sep. 2025
• The money is almost a footnote.
  — Tomislav Mikula, CNBC, 6 May 2026
• In her own time, Monroe’s study became a footnote.
  — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 1 June 2026
• That is not a technical footnote.
  — Monica Sanders, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
• This is not a technical footnote.
  — David Kilmnick, New York Daily News, 21 Feb. 2026

footnote

2 of 2 verb

• Mere footnotes at the bottom of Brady’s pigskin curriculum vitae.
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Sep. 2023
• Sachs, without footnoting his movie in any way, evokes this history and Hujar’s place in it.
  — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2025
• That makes much of the display feel less like rewriting history than simply footnoting more thoroughly.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 18 Oct. 2019
• So there is our celebration, much of it biblically inspired, even if not always footnoted.
  — Rick Hamlin and Bloomberg, charlotteobserver, 22 Dec. 2017
• But, no, weirdly enough, the ‘80s aspect of this movie was less about referencing or footnoting things than getting the story right for me.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 8 July 2024
• 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
• For instance, a recent booking at a local beach resort hotel was footnoted in the small print as having a $50-a-night fee for any vehicle brought to the property.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2019
• His argument is sophisticated and footnoted, but jargon-free and illustrated in a way that helps even readers with no economic training to follow it.
  — The Economist, 12 Dec. 2019
• Her screeds are routinely cited in major newspapers and footnoted in lawsuits; her targets range from low-level government employees to the Pope.
  — Antonia Hitchens, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025
• It’s not generally expected to footnote its references or adopt the citational rigor of nonfiction.
  — Sophia Nguyen, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2023
• The research of others, although abundantly and generously cited, too often seems to footnote Pinker's own prior assumptions.
  — Timothy Snyder, Foreign Affairs, 18 Dec. 2011
• Each section comes heavily footnoted, indicating the appearance of traditional folk tale motifs — taboos, odd coincidences.
  — Parul Sehgal, New York Times, 29 Oct. 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
• But Herf writes about Islamism in the Arab world while citing no documents or literature in Arabic and while footnoting virtually none of the enormous secondary literature on the subject.
  — Paul Berman, Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2010