How to Use credulity in a Sentence

credulity

noun

• The idea that Comey made all this up strains credulity.
  — Paul Barrett, Bloomberg.com, 18 May 2017
• For none of them to repeat in the 80 days Kepler stared at the star strained credulity.
  — Adam Mann, Scientific American, 3 July 2019
• The fact that June can’t open an iced-over garage door sort of strains credulity — not even the car will break it open?
  — Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, 27 June 2018
• This is a premise that, as A.J. Liebling was wont to say, stretches the elastic of credulity.
  — New York Times, 19 Apr. 2021
• The start of this episode really strained all credulity for me, though.
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 28 Nov. 2021
• With hokum such as this, my credulity can be counted on.
  — Kent Russell, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022
• The makers of religion can stretch the bounds of credulity in the name of a higher purpose.
  — Dominic Green, WSJ, 16 Sep. 2022
• Trump stretched credulity on a variety of subjects over the past week, trade among them.
  — Washington Post, 26 Mar. 2018
• In the case of Jane Doe No. 4, especially, this strains credulity.
  — Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2022
• There was this fear of missing out that explains a lot of Walgreens’ sort of credulity and lack of due diligence.
  — Recode Staff, Recode, 3 June 2018
• When the age of science dawned, men of reason tended to mock the ancients for their childish credulity.
  — Tom Fort, WSJ, 28 July 2017
• Just ask Jack White, who created a Coke jingle in 2006 that stretched the limits of credulity.
  — Scott Thill, WIRED, 26 Aug. 2008
• The harmless lies of everyday life have taught us credulity.
  — Christiane Gelitz, Scientific American, 9 Feb. 2021
• Some of his actions and views strain credulity and feel overdetermined.
  — Leland Cheuk, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2023
• Yet many in the media greeted the report with utter credulity.
  — Ted Rall, WSJ, 1 Apr. 2021
• But then the show became a strident piece of agitprop that strained credulity.
  — Omid Khazani and Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2021
• To do what Rose did in that upper graph is to strain reality (and credulity) past the breaking point.
  — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 23 Oct. 2012
• To say this all neat typology strains credulity is to miss the point and be miserable.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 16 Mar. 2018
• The first American outlets to cover the app treated its premise with credulity.
  — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 1 Aug. 2022
• That said, there are times when Vogt seems to flicker between credulity and skepticism.
  — Vulture, 20 Apr. 2022
• In cases where the profit motive and the social good are in conflict, the Roundtable statement begs credulity.
  — Roger Lowenstein, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2019
• Sadly, the story, first recorded in 1829, strains credulity.
  — The Economist, 19 Oct. 2017
• But its strengths more than make up for its occasional credulity strains.
  — Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2021
• This sort of credulity is both Rogan’s biggest draw and his worst tendency.
  — Jack Crosbie, Rolling Stone, 26 Jan. 2022
• The routine was delivered a bit tongue-in-cheek, but with enough credulity to cause a stir on social media — where viewers took the cue to lambast the Emmys.
  — Michael Schneider, Variety, 27 Sep. 2021
• But the film also defies credulity as Rachel seems to give-up on seeking help from the police in favor of battling the monster herself.
  — Will Coviello, NOLA.com, 21 Aug. 2020
• Even if one or more vaccines is authorized for emergency use by the end of this year, those numbers stretch credulity.
  — Hope Yen, Star Tribune, 20 Sep. 2020
• Still, a few are worth mentioning if only because their prices strain credulity.
  — Steve Siler, Car and Driver, 29 Sep. 2017
• In Bacon’s view, too many people lapse into a credulity of habit, simply accepting what they have been told over and over.
  — Richard Gunderman, The Conversation, 1 May 2020
• However, many of the sky-is-falling claims made by those sympathetic to the status quo strain credulity.
  — Patrick Hruby, Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2020

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024