That he was never awarded the Nobel Prize is a kind of sad footnote to the history of the latter.

A sad footnote is the fate of Dr. Carothers.

I want to add a small, sad footnote to Mr. Bilby's story.

The story is an interesting, sad footnote in the history not only of lobotomy, but of pain control.

A sad footnote to the Hershberger suicide was Lombardi's eerily similar suicide attempt in 1953.

In a sad footnote, it was determined that the worker they were attempting to reach had bled to death before the chopper ever took off.

"It's a very sad footnote to today's compromise."

The story was a sad footnote to an N.B.A. summer of grief.

Its destruction made him a sad footnote in the nation's history.

It is a sad footnote to the Astors' eclipse that the present-day Waldorf-Astoria, otherwise unrelated, bought its name for $1.