How to Use bona fides in a Sentence

bona fides

noun

• Should the game become a bona fide hit, that could be key to sustaining this year’s stock rally.
  — Bloomberg News, The Denver Post, 9 June 2019
• Beckham is a bona fide superstar, one that transcends football.
  — Dan Labbe, cleveland.com, 5 June 2019
• Even name recognition and party bona fides are no guarantee of success.
  — Christina A. Cassidy, The Seattle Times, 29 Oct. 2018
• The ratio of shoppers to bona fide employees is over 116 to 1.
  — Cyrus Farivar, Ars Technica, 18 Nov. 2018
• Hader, Yates, Jansen, Vazquez all have bigger bona fides than Garrett.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 8 June 2019
• The Met Gala is one of the few nights of the year when fashion, beauty, art, and culture converge to make a bona fide moment.
  — Teen Vogue, 3 May 2019
• Other companies have found value in advertising their climate bona fides.
  — Benjamin Romano, The Seattle Times, 18 May 2019
• The 570S Spider is a bona fide exotic for a super-expensive-sports-car price.
  — Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 12 Dec. 2018
• The result is a new bona fide adventure in the story — one that could be an extended episode from the series, but which also fleshes out the characters and world just a bit more.
  — Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 20 Nov. 2018
• Now that the designer has brought Offset into the fold, the Migos rapper has officially turned bona fide fashion force.
  — Rachel Hahn, Vogue, 16 Jan. 2019
• Roots bona fides, goosed with rock zeal and a chip on the shoulder.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 20 June 2022
• The young man from Katy, Texas, is a bona fide marine star.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 19 June 2019
• 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
• As for Chanel, this isn’t the first time the French luxury house has sought to establish its green bona fides.
  — Kim Bhasin, Fortune, 11 June 2019
• 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
• 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: 15 Dec 2024