How to Use bona fide in a Sentence

bona fide

adjective

• They have a bona fide claim for the loss.
• His latest record was a bona fide hit.
• She has established her position as a bona fide celebrity.
• This is George Clooney, bona fide movie star, at the close of 2020.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 23 Dec. 2020
• Every team has a bona fide No. 1 center while the Stars will be looking to replace theirs.
  — Matthew Defranks, Dallas News, 28 Dec. 2020
• The bidders who did win are stalking-horse bidders, planning to hold the leases and flip them to a bona fide oil company in the years to come.
  — Timothy Fitzgerald, National Review, 11 Jan. 2021
• But that didn't stop some media outlets writing headlines that suggested a bona fide double-spend had occurred.
  — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 22 Jan. 2021
• The platform offers numerous bona fide tiny home experiences across the country.
  — Kelly Corbett, House Beautiful, 23 Dec. 2020
• Key play on the drive was a 37-yard strike to rookie Peoples-Jones, who’s establishing himself as a bona fide deep threat.
  — cleveland, 15 Dec. 2020
• The book follows animation’s evolution from a novelty to a bona fide industry.
  — Peter Tonguette, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Jan. 2021
• Ross also intends to keep switch-hitter Ian Happ in the leadoff spot unless the Cubs acquire a bona fide leadoff hitter.
  — Mark Gonzales, chicagotribune.com, 16 Dec. 2020
• The show rightly took off, bringing enchantment to Zoom and transforming a tic-tac-toe board of viewers into a bona fide theater audience.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2020
• In 1981, New Mexico became the first to name a bona fide dinosaur (the Coelophysis).
  — Lauren Kent, CNN, 17 Jan. 2021
• Baby Reindeer, which won the bulk of the limited-series categories, is a bona fide word-of-mouth hit, a rarity in today’s television landscape.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2024
• This isn't the first time Conservative Beaver has used bona fide legal documents from the Department of Justice to make false claims.
  — Camille Caldera, USA TODAY, 4 Dec. 2020
• Those bona fide oil companies — who would eventually drill wells to deliver oil to consumers and royalties to the Treasury — opted to pass and invest elsewhere.
  — Timothy Fitzgerald, National Review, 11 Jan. 2021
• Get younger, create some salary cap flexibility, replenish the prospect pool and hope that Fiala and Kaprizov develop into bona fide stars and elite goal scorers.
  — Star Tribune, 9 Jan. 2021
• By the end of the 1950s, Berry was a bona fide rock star—with a better car.
  — Eddie Dean, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2022
• But the club doesn’t have a bona fide star to build around and is hoping for some luck in the draft.
  — Tom Withers, chicagotribune.com, 25 May 2021
• But that’s not the same as bona fide protection against the virus.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 10 Aug. 2022
• For as long as Zoey Deutch has been in the public, she's been a bona fide hair chameleon.
  — Marci Robin, Allure, 4 Mar. 2024
• Those fakes opened my eyes to the bona fide world of synthetics.
  — Irv Erdos, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Nov. 2023
• This is not the first time that the bona fide rule has led to controversy.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 17 June 2021
• Against the Yankees, Alexander looked like a bona fide starter.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 1 Apr. 2022
• In any case, there was no bona fide dispute in 2020 about the electoral votes.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 16 June 2022
• But Nunez — a bona fide big leaguer for the last three seasons — could have jumped ship.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 29 Mar. 2021
• Isikhuemhen and Rosborough are now bona fide stars in the world of truffles.
  — Andrew Kornylak, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 May 2021
• In the Heights fails to make Anthony Ramos a bona fide box office star.
  — Thr Staff, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Jan. 2022
• Think about places closer to home yet far enough away to feel like a bona fide journey.
  — Gregory Wallace, CNN, 21 June 2022
• Inside Out 2 was released in June, and became a bona fide box office smash for Disney and Pixar.
  — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024