How to Use credo in a Sentence

credo

noun
  • My credo is to hope for the best but plan for the worst.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 27 Mar. 2020
  • That was always taught to me as the credo of the free press.
    Jennifer Wright, Harper's BAZAAR, 30 Apr. 2018
  • Grande set the tone by posting a credo for the new year.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 19 Feb. 2024
  • But there was a life-goes-on vibe that has to be part of a player’s credo.
    SI.com, 11 Sep. 2017
  • Michaels said Strum and Dike truly live the agapé credo.
    Pam Kragen, sandiegouniontribune.com, 12 Oct. 2017
  • But through it all, the exception to this credo have been his books.
    Erik Maza, Town & Country, 3 Jan. 2019
  • The world would not be free, as the credo of the day advised, until the last king was strangled with the intestines of the last priest.
    Christopher Ketcham, Harper's magazine, 22 July 2019
  • The credo of Fat Ham is that famous quote about being true to thine own self.
    Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Such is the credo of the about-to-open Hotel Renaissance Paris République.
    Alison Beckner, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Apr. 2016
  • What is not a matter of dispute is that Arledge and McKay took the credo to heart.
    BostonGlobe.com, 24 Apr. 2021
  • The closest Babur comes to expressing a credo is in a passage from the year 1507.
    Manavi Kapur, Quartz India, 8 Nov. 2019
  • Hamas rose in the 1980s on a credo of resistance against Israel.
    The Economist, 14 Nov. 2019
  • Play whisper down the lane with your ideas and let that give birth to an entirely new credo.
    Bess Matassa, Teen Vogue, 28 July 2017
  • Seems like neither Trekkie is living up to the show’s live-long-and-prosper credo.
    Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2021
  • That’s a credo that goes all the way back to Hoover, and it’s taken very seriously.
    New York Times, 1 Sep. 2021
  • Dylan and Elvis could not be more different, yet both share a simple credo: To be true to the song.
    Tom Teicholz, Forbes, 29 June 2022
  • That's the gunfighter's credo, and that's been our problem.
    Fox News, 28 July 2018
  • Live and let live — or let die — is the Jacksonian credo.
    Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 15 Aug. 2017
  • This week is one to discover your credo that’s always been by your side.
    Bess Matassa, Teen Vogue, 7 Apr. 2018
  • At the event, Wang spoke to her style credos–both for holiday and wedding dressing.
    Carrie Goldberg, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 Dec. 2016
  • In the destructive element immerse.’ This has been my credo, the lifeblood of my books.
    Benjamin Taylor, The Atlantic, 21 Apr. 2020
  • Then there's his credo for the UCLA defense, which requires only one word and speaks for itself.
    Ben Bolch, latimes.com, 13 Mar. 2018
  • That’s her credo: People first, then money, then things.
    Wendy Grossman Kantor, PEOPLE.com, 20 Aug. 2020
  • There's a difference between a serial cheater and who lives life by the credo that cheatin' equals tryin'.
    Kent Somers, azcentral, 13 Jan. 2020
  • There are those who believe Mr. Pelli sometimes fell short of that credo.
    Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 19 July 2019
  • Conviction on the principles of our credo, that, by the way, this year is the 80th anniversary of the credo was written.
    Fortune Editors, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Free trade has been a central credo of the Republican Party for years, but Democrats have for the most part endorsed it, too.
    David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 29 July 2016
  • That’s a whole other thing among musicians whose old-fashioned work credo seems to be: more rock, less talk.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 12 Mar. 2024
  • But the March credo of survive and advance was on full display in what went from a clinic, to a collapse, and ended in a comeback.
    oregonlive, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Service is something of a credo for Moore, almost a sacred idea.
    Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 18 July 2023

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