How to Use credibility in a Sentence

credibility

noun

• In this instance, the lawyer's job is to make the jury doubt the witness's credibility.
• The new evidence lends credibility to their theory.
• The scandal undermined her credibility as an honest politician.
• He's already been praised for bringing a new level of credibility to one of the worst franchises in the league the past two decades.
  — Arkansas Online, 2 Nov. 2022
• All of this puts pressure on a new coach who appears to be an old-school basketball soul with solid credibility and a bright future.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2022
• Our job was to draft clear criteria and standards that bring transparency, ambition and credibility to net zero.
  — Time, 8 Nov. 2022
• But leading a ruling party is only possible with respect and credibility.
  — Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News, 20 Oct. 2022
• His reputation gave Morgan the credibility to attract more top talent.
  — Brandon Kochkodin, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
• The results have a credibility interval — similar to a margin of error — of 5 percent, so Levin’s lead is within it.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Nov. 2022
• The credibility of such witnesses will likely be a major factor in any charging decision regarding Trump.
  — Devlin Barrett, Perry Stein and Josh Dawsey, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Oct. 2022
• The earl called the BBC to vouch for Bashir’s credibility.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 11 Nov. 2022
• The word indie has lost a lot of its credibility over the years.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 18 Jan. 2024
• But over time, the regard for the group seems to have risen, along with its credibility.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Sep. 2023
• The credibility of state troopers was on the line, Davis said.
  — Dennis Romero, NBC News, 2 Sep. 2023
• For now, the Fed has drawn a red line at 2 percent, and its credibility is at stake.
  — Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2023
• Meadors argued the defense is trying to take the jury away from the facts and credibility of the case.
  — Elise Hammond, CNN, 2 Mar. 2023
• But more than two years into the war, the credibility of these threats is starting to wane.
  — Joshua Keating, Vox, 5 June 2024
• What gives this some credibility is that so many people saw the same thing.
  — Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 14 June 2023
• Police did not give exact details of the email but said Friday that the credibility of the threat was low.
  — Lilly Price, Baltimore Sun, 21 Nov. 2022
• The case shredded to pieces the little that remained of the talk channel’s credibility.
  — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 19 Apr. 2023
• Another problem is the spread of fake news and the credibility of sources.
  — Charlotte Observer, 21 May 2024
• In 1997, one of his sons was killed fighting the Israelis, which has since become a main source of his credibility.
  — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024
• The credibility of the claims in both lawsuits were questions by the defendants.
  — Kate Mangels, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Sep. 2023
• In the interim, Hamas will gain more credibility within both Gaza and the West Bank.
  — Salam Fayyad, Foreign Affairs, 20 June 2024
• Sometimes the mere act of attendance in a war game can lend credibility to the game’s outcomes.
  — Jacquelyn Schneider, Foreign Affairs, 26 Dec. 2023
• When the credibility crisis hits, founders start looking for answers in all the wrong places.
  — David Sinkinson, Fortune, 5 Aug. 2024
• Hill said Lee’s previous work brings tons of credibility to the search.
  — Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 29 July 2024
• The credibility of a central bank is a terrible thing to waste.
  — The Editors, National Review, 15 Dec. 2022
• Now, its new chief justice has vowed to restore the court’s credibility.
  — Hasan Ali, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Sep. 2023
• There was some solace in the knowledge that here was a person trying—as philosophers do, at their best—to lend intellectual credibility to what might otherwise remain private emotional intuitions.
  — Alice Gregory, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Dec 2024