Sentence examples for footnotes merely from inspiring English sources

But often the footnotes merely tell us that the term was a 19th-century cliché.

And for that, race, money or education are merely footnotes.

Her films will last long after many of the films in play today are merely footnotes.

Merely footnoting the copied words does not cure the wrong.

The footnote may be merely a piece of light whimsicality unlooked for in a transportation table, or, it may represent nuance and flexibility in the use of language beyond the dreams of a semanticist, or, as seems most likely, it may be the work of a schedule worker who has developed an acute contempt for the word information.

As a performer, however, she is here merely a footnote to her colleagues.

That would present an opportunity to showcase the work of someone who is, for now, merely a footnote.

A goalless draw with the Costa Ricans, who had sealed England's fate by stunning Italy, was merely a footnote.

But on this night, the case of the inexplicable scorecard was merely a footnote to a fight that was, for better or for worse, rather straightforward.

In this bigger picture, the Wisconsin governor's fawning 20-minute phone conversation with a prankster impersonating the oil billionaire David Koch last week, while entertaining, is merely a footnote.

It may be merely a footnote to a national calamity, but the collapse of the World Trade Center's two towers ended an era in New York City dining.