How to Use bona fides in a Sentence

bona fides

noun

• None of which has stopped her from becoming a bona fide icon in France.
  — Lauren Elkin, Harper's magazine, 25 Nov. 2019
• The hostages themselves were suspicious of their captors’ campus bona fides.
  — A. J. Caschetta, National Review, 4 Nov. 2019
• This is a bona fide public safety, public health and environmental crisis for the most affected towns and cities.
  — Gregory B. Hladky, courant.com, 31 Oct. 2019
• Leia will scream at Han: More rom-com fun between hate-lovers, and a profound statement that this character is more than her military bona fides.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 30 Oct. 2019
• Early adopters Many of Climate Neutral's early adopters have spent a great deal of effort building up their sustainable bona fides.
  — Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 7 Oct. 2019
• The Cubs need to address several areas — young starting pitching, relief pitching, contact hitting — and don’t have many bona fide in-house options.
  — Mark Gonzales, chicagotribune.com, 10 Oct. 2019
• And about a decade after their introduction to the mainstream, mom jeans have nestled their way into our hearts and closets, evolving from a derogatory nickname reserved to a bona fide trend.
  — Anne T. Donahue, Glamour, 18 Oct. 2019
• The outrage engulfed the announcement and then some, growing from hundreds of angry replies to bona fide trend within the astrology community.
  — Wired, 31 Oct. 2019
• 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
• The Colts have proven their bona fides as legit AFC contenders.
  — Scott Horner, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Dec. 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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: 28 Oct 2024