How to Use bona fides in a Sentence

bona fides

noun

• Roots bona fides, goosed with rock zeal and a chip on the shoulder.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 20 June 2022
• This November will test the Ravens' bona fides in much the same way.
  — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 18 Oct. 2020
• Fox seemed to shore up its Trumpian bona fides after that.
  — Jeremy Barr, Washington Post, 30 July 2022
• Hew might be a ghost kitchen, but its Thai bona fides are real.
  — Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 11 Feb. 2021
• Williams is the last bona fide superstar left in the women’s draw.
  — Kevin Craft, The Atlantic, 3 Sep. 2019
• The Colts have proven their bona fides as legit AFC contenders.
  — Scott Horner, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Dec. 2021
• None of which has stopped her from becoming a bona fide icon in France.
  — Lauren Elkin, Harper's magazine, 25 Nov. 2019
• Make a deal for Beal, and the Nuggets have not one bona fide all-star, but two in their starting lineup.
  — Mark Kiszla, The Denver Post, 9 July 2019
• Fashion loves a first time, sure, but what made the show really one to watch were Blazy’s bona fides.
  — José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 16 Dec. 2022
• It’s the tenuity of manhood that drives men to seek ways to prove their masculine bona fides.
  — Parker Molloy, Rolling Stone, 25 Apr. 2022
• Ackley came to the job with slim social-justice bona fides.
  — Mark Obbie, Longreads, 10 Mar. 2020
• Ahead, bona fide plant whisperers share the plants that deserve a spot in the most sacred space of all.
  — Erin Parker, Glamour, 3 Mar. 2020
• And, acting bona fides aside, the payout was something else.
  — Tim Rohan, SI.com, 8 July 2019
• Not to say that the original version didn’t have its own fashion bona fides, of course.
  — José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 3 Feb. 2023
• Chrissie Hynde proved the bona fides of her Bob Dylan fandom decades ago.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 21 May 2021
• Even then, if your roots are in the Greater Portland area, folks living in the vast part of the state that’s north of there might still question your bona fides.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2022
• In fact, the more Kingston leans into his heel bona fides, the more some fans will embrace an edgier Eddie.
  — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 14 Nov. 2021
• Both Murkowski and Tshibaka boast of their Alaska bona fides.
  — Manu Raju and Alex Rogers, CNN, 4 Oct. 2021
• And if the allegiance to right-wing values were paramount, wouldn’t his pro-life bona fides count?
  — Elizabeth MacBride, Quartz, 7 Jan. 2020
• Whether the young candidate’s progressive bona fides will hurt him in the runoff remains to be seen.
  — Joshua Fechter, San Antonio Express-News, 10 May 2021
• The alleged mistreatment of employees lost the Wing the feminist bona fides that had built up the brand.
  — Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 1 Sep. 2022
• God-knows-how-long of their ‘family values’ bona fides.
  — Kara Baskin, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Jan. 2022
• Markey has established his progressive bona fides in the Senate, and was a co-sponsor of the Green New Deal.
  — Grace Segers, CBS News, 20 Aug. 2020
• But Jags still need more big plays from that side of ball to reclaim Sacksonville label and playoff bona fides.
  — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 23 July 2019
• Trump supporters cheered the appointment, and not just because of Durham's bona fides.
  — Eric Tucker, ajc, 19 Oct. 2022
• That focus is no surprise, given Bush’s Lone Star State bona fides.
  — Tom Benning, Dallas News, 24 July 2020
• Even celebrities seeking to burnish their eco-friendly bona fides were smitten with the car.
  — Tim De Chant, Wired, 28 July 2021
• In the meantime, Yang ticked off all the boxes to establish his Communist bona fides.
  — Barbara Demick, The Atlantic, 18 Dec. 2020
• The deal likely means Simmons will end his year-long holdout and play for the Nets soon, giving them defensive bona fides.
  — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Feb. 2022
• Advertisement Even with his bona fides as a tastemaker, Williams has big shoes to fill in Abloh’s absence.
  — Anne Branigin, Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024