How to Use badge of honor/pride in a Sentence

badge of honor/pride

noun phrase
  • Chain-of-thought is like a badge of honor that the answer presented is logically airtight.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2024
  • Holding the former–always unclasped, yet never a morsel of her busy daily life visible–is a badge of honor that shows Victoria was born to be in Paris.
    Alice Newbold, Vogue, 27 Sep. 2024
  • The truth is, learning how to rest is the badge of honor.
    Karin Eldor, Forbes, 4 May 2023
  • While that may be a badge of honor on the mound, that grimy peak may not look as good in the bleachers.
    Maryal Miller Carter, USA TODAY, 10 Feb. 2024
  • While that may be a badge of honor on the mound, that grimy peak may not look as good in the bleachers.
    Maryal Miller Carter, USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2023
  • In that way, a round at Bethpage Black is badge of honor.
    Shaun Tolson, Robb Report, 2 July 2022
  • Here's what to expect at a restaurant with the badge of honor.
    Morgan Hines, USA TODAY, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Quite a badge of honor, to have been beaten by The Man himself.
    Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 18 May 2024
  • The badge of honor was reserved for those who pulled all-nighters and could still get a full day’s work done.
    Colin Lawlor, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2021
  • Now booking one of these blockbusters is kind of a badge of honor.
    Guy Trebay, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2024
  • There was no mistaking the Ryans, who all donned name tags — a badge of honor.
    Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2023
  • What is a Michelin star?Here's what to expect at a restaurant with the badge of honor.
    USA TODAY, 6 June 2023
  • What is a Michelin star?:Here's what to expect at a restaurant with the badge of honor.
    Morgan Hines, USA TODAY, 29 Jan. 2023
  • Nicotera said the red rash from the shot has become a badge of honor of sorts in the gay community.
    Sun Sentinel, 9 Sep. 2022
  • You've been suspended from Twitter in the past, which feels kind of like a badge of honor in some ways.
    Gideon Lichfield, WIRED, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Today, many of them have their $17 mint julep plastic cups stacked high, like a badge of honor, in the infield.
    BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2023
  • The names sound mundane, even for horses, but each is something like a badge of honor.
    Longreads, 2 Nov. 2022
  • How to protect yourself While some used to brag about battling through a flu to get to work, that's no longer a badge of pride, Lockard said.
    Minnah Arshad, The Courier-Journal, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Covered with a tiny blue star, acne feels almost like a badge of honor, not a source of shame.
    Jake Smith, Glamour, 26 Apr. 2022
  • So weirdly, his works have been a badge of honor for me, because the Welsh are obsessed with the Welsh and anything Welsh.
    Adam B. Vary, Variety, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Big Pharma would come after him, but can’t that be turned into a badge of pride in Montana?
    Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 23 Apr. 2023
  • The game is only a few minutes old, and Chrostowski has earned a baptismal badge of honor.
    Marc Bona, cleveland, 24 Jan. 2022
  • Some chefs make a show of their hard work and immoderation, wearing it as a badge of honor.
    Edward Columbia, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2021
  • And not only are the outfits more connected to the music, there's a degree of specificity that serves as a kind of badge of honor.
    Alex Jhamb Burns, Vogue, 20 Oct. 2023
  • The players do not wear gloves and often get their fingers jammed and broken, which is considered a badge of honor.
    Gary Gastelu, Fox News, 30 Sep. 2022
  • Where sunglasses are a classic symbol of cool, glasses are like a badge of honor.
    Rachel Besser, Vogue, 25 Aug. 2023
  • This fleet ages naturally in the Arizona sun, wearing a warm patina as a badge of honor.
    Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 20 Apr. 2024
  • Suffering is a badge of honor, and the theater is properly a purple-heart club.
    New York Times, 3 Aug. 2022
  • The vote was stunning, even now, when defying the rule of law is practically a badge of honor among many right-wing leaders.
    Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2023
  • An invitation to present to the board is a badge of honor, says Rich Fields, head of the board effectiveness practice at Russell Reynolds.
    Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 10 Mar. 2023

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