How to Use bona fides in a Sentence

bona fides

noun

• The young man from Katy, Texas, is a bona fide marine star.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 19 June 2019
• As for Chanel, this isn’t the first time the French luxury house has sought to establish its green bona fides.
  — Kim Bhasin, Fortune, 11 June 2019
• Lloyd advises travelers to use the hotel shuttle service or hire a driver with bona fides.
  — The Washington Post, The Mercury News, 13 June 2019
• In other words, Sanders was not running away from his socialist bona fides, but also didn’t see them as always relevant to his day job.
  — Matthew Zeitlin, The New Republic, 13 June 2019
• Since 2000, the second pick has resulted in only two bona fide All-Star players.
  — New York Times, 17 June 2019
• Her new memoir tells the story of her journey from a preteen busker in Buffalo, N.Y., to a record label founder and owner — and bona fide rock star on her own terms.
  — Michael Schaub, latimes.com, 11 June 2019
• This was the year for Oregon to enact the nation’s second economy-wide cap on greenhouse gases and reclaim her national environmental bona fides.
  — oregonlive.com, 30 June 2019
• Roots bona fides, goosed with rock zeal and a chip on the shoulder.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 20 June 2022
• This November will test the Ravens' bona fides in much the same way.
  — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 18 Oct. 2020
• Fox seemed to shore up its Trumpian bona fides after that.
  — Jeremy Barr, Washington Post, 30 July 2022
• Hew might be a ghost kitchen, but its Thai bona fides are real.
  — Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 11 Feb. 2021
• Williams is the last bona fide superstar left in the women’s draw.
  — Kevin Craft, The Atlantic, 3 Sep. 2019
• The Colts have proven their bona fides as legit AFC contenders.
  — Scott Horner, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Dec. 2021
• None of which has stopped her from becoming a bona fide icon in France.
  — Lauren Elkin, Harper's magazine, 25 Nov. 2019
• Make a deal for Beal, and the Nuggets have not one bona fide all-star, but two in their starting lineup.
  — Mark Kiszla, The Denver Post, 9 July 2019
• Fashion loves a first time, sure, but what made the show really one to watch were Blazy’s bona fides.
  — José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 16 Dec. 2022
• It’s the tenuity of manhood that drives men to seek ways to prove their masculine bona fides.
  — Parker Molloy, Rolling Stone, 25 Apr. 2022
• Ackley came to the job with slim social-justice bona fides.
  — Mark Obbie, Longreads, 10 Mar. 2020
• Ahead, bona fide plant whisperers share the plants that deserve a spot in the most sacred space of all.
  — Erin Parker, Glamour, 3 Mar. 2020
• And, acting bona fides aside, the payout was something else.
  — Tim Rohan, SI.com, 8 July 2019
• Not to say that the original version didn’t have its own fashion bona fides, of course.
  — José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 3 Feb. 2023
• Chrissie Hynde proved the bona fides of her Bob Dylan fandom decades ago.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 21 May 2021
• Even then, if your roots are in the Greater Portland area, folks living in the vast part of the state that’s north of there might still question your bona fides.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2022
• In fact, the more Kingston leans into his heel bona fides, the more some fans will embrace an edgier Eddie.
  — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 14 Nov. 2021
• Both Murkowski and Tshibaka boast of their Alaska bona fides.
  — Manu Raju and Alex Rogers, CNN, 4 Oct. 2021
• And if the allegiance to right-wing values were paramount, wouldn’t his pro-life bona fides count?
  — Elizabeth MacBride, Quartz, 7 Jan. 2020
• Whether the young candidate’s progressive bona fides will hurt him in the runoff remains to be seen.
  — Joshua Fechter, San Antonio Express-News, 10 May 2021
• The alleged mistreatment of employees lost the Wing the feminist bona fides that had built up the brand.
  — Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 1 Sep. 2022
• God-knows-how-long of their ‘family values’ bona fides.
  — Kara Baskin, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Jan. 2022
• Advertisement Even with his bona fides as a tastemaker, Williams has big shoes to fill in Abloh’s absence.
  — Anne Branigin, Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 3 Dec 2024