How to Use face value in a Sentence

face value

noun

• But the real smooth-brained move is to take memes at face value.
  — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 24 Nov. 2020
• Scharf sold the credit checks on eBay for as low as 50% of face value.
  — Shannon Prather, Star Tribune, 4 Dec. 2020
• At face value, deep-sea fish would not appear to be the most competent vocalists.
  — Sabrina Imbler, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2020
• Do your research, ask questions, and don’t accept everything at face value.
  — As Told To Natasha Lavender, SELF, 17 Dec. 2020
• Taken at face value, the central bank seems to have refrained from intervening.
  — The Economist, 31 Oct. 2020
• The other hard truth is that investors can't take public statements from the Trump administration at face value.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 15 Oct. 2020
• But be wary — even more wary than before — of taking any Trump or White House statements at face value and transmitting them to the public.
  — Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2020
• Because these rankings are taken at face value and viewed to be important by consumers, the entities which are ranked might very well modify their behavior with the sole purpose of improving their rank.
  — Abba Krieger, Quartz, 8 Dec. 2020
• The European Union isn’t taking Boris Johnson’s threats to walk away from seven months of trade negotiations at face value.
  — Ian Wishart, Bloomberg.com, 16 Oct. 2020
• The group has wiped out debt with a face value of more than $5.3 billion.
  — Jeff Amy, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2021
• At face value, the world of Pandora should be too big to fail.
  — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 17 Dec. 2022
• Note the question mark, though: That means that the clue should not be taken at face value.
  — Deb Amlen, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2023
• But do those costs add up to the 20% above face value that ATRs are permitted to charge?
  — David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2021
• Bryson says to avoid taking these claims at face value.
  — Simon Hill, WIRED, 28 Sep. 2022
• Companies will be able to claim 90% of the face value of the credit, with the payout stretched over five years.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 27 June 2023
• Service fees can add as much as 32 percent to the face value of a ticket.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 May 2024
• In other words, the face value of the coin is so much lower than the value of the metal inside.
  — Brad Auerbach, SPIN, 8 Sep. 2022
• On face value those might not seem like big numbers, says Marr.
  — Peter Lane Taylor, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2021
• Those numbers sound like good news, at least at face value.
  — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 30 Sep. 2022
• In the meantime, viewers are left to take what the company says at face value.
  — Angela Watercutter, Wired, 19 Nov. 2021
• But most researchers take the work of Bell, Clauser, Aspect, Zeilinger and their teams at face value.
  — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 4 Oct. 2022
• The fund sold century bonds with a face value of $500 million.
  — Anna Hirtenstein, WSJ, 6 Oct. 2022
• The movie's title is not supposed to be taken at face value.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 12 Feb. 2022
• At the time, they were largely accepted at face value and sold well.
  — Alex Palmer, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Mar. 2021
• Though cautious to take things at face value, You fans couldn't hide their shock at every glimpse.
  — Jacqueline Saguin, Good Housekeeping, 18 Feb. 2023
• Thus, the moral of this story is that no one should ever take what Amazon does at face value.
  — Chris Walton, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2022
• The face value is also referred to as the par value or the principal.
  — Chris Taylor, wsj.com, 7 Nov. 2023
• Shroff urged jurors not to take his remarks at face value.
  — Jennifer Peltz, ajc, 8 Feb. 2023
• That said, going by face value, the demo videos appear impressive and state-of-the-art (an ever-moving target) for video synthesis.
  — Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 18 June 2024
• And judging by the reaction from ticket buyers — with all seven shows sold out in advance and ducats going for many times face value through re-sell outlets — the fans wouldn’t have it any other way.
  — Jim Harrington, The Mercury News, 10 June 2024

Last Updated: 29 Sep 2024