How to Use bona fides in a Sentence

bona fides

noun

• 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
• While the order is not yet in effect, these markets remain a bona fide grocery option.
  — Arizona Republic, 27 Mar. 2020
• The condo is still equipped with all its original appliances for a bona fide blast to the past—our grandmillennial hearts are swelling.
  — Kelly Corbett, House Beautiful, 26 Feb. 2020
• The mention of being a public defender is one of the ways that the former vice president points to his civil rights bona fides on the campaign trail.
  — Emily Larsen, Washington Examiner, 4 June 2020
• But the timing is a way of highlighting Biden’s bona fides among activists who gratefully remember his 2012 role.
  — NBC News, 6 May 2020
• Additionally with this mission, the small Vega booster seeks to prove its bona fides as a booster capable of flying rideshare missions.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 19 June 2020
• Additionally, with this mission, the small Vega booster seeks to prove its bona fides as a booster capable of flying rideshare missions.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 17 June 2020
• There was, of course, Andrew Yang—at just 45 years old a bona fide Silicon Valley success story.
  — Noam Cohen, Wired, 14 Feb. 2020
• But in the past week, the administration has gone to extraordinary lengths to burnish Trump's anti-China bona fides.
  — Grady McGregor, Fortune, 26 June 2020
• Warren's support could strengthen Biden's bona fides to the progressive left, one of his areas of weakness as Democrats look to boost turn out in November.
  — Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 15 Apr. 2020
• It has been abused, so conditions have been added, including a requirement that the requesting agency demonstrate that its request meets a bona fide need that either exists or is arising within the fiscal year.
  — Dria Roland, Fortune, 26 Apr. 2020
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

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