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.
• But as a bona fide leader doing the little-but-big things a captain should.
  — Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 7 Nov. 2020
• Still, with the box office curtailed since March, bona fide hits will be few and far between.
  — Kyle Buchanan, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2020
• Some grimly joke that only in death does the agency recognize them as bona fide firefighters.
  — NBC News, 31 Oct. 2020
• What the Giants lacked most, what cost them dearly in the end, what most every playoff team had, was a bona fide closer.
  — John Shea, SFChronicle.com, 3 Oct. 2020
• For the first time in almost a year, Oregon State has itself bona fide preparation for a football game week.
  — oregonlive, 3 Nov. 2020
• Space becomes a bona fide political issue in Australia.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 2 Oct. 2020
• The magic of what makes this experiment a bona fide triumph is how vulnerable, how open, its players have been during their time there.
  — Jason Parham, Wired, 2 Oct. 2020
• When Mosley gets healthy, that will give quarterback Rocky Lombardi four bona fide weapons in the passing game with speed in space.
  — Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 2 Nov. 2020
• But having a bona fide scorer and outside shooter helps relieve one of MSU’s biggest concerns.
  — Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 14 Oct. 2020
• Junior running back Keaontay Ingram came into the year as the bona fide starter in the backfield looking to cement his place as the No. 1 back.
  — Dallas News, 12 Oct. 2020
• This is George Clooney, bona fide movie star, at the close of 2020.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 23 Dec. 2020
• 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
• Whether or not this dry spell turns into a bona fide drought remains to be seen.
  — Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 11 May 2022
• Nine months at the new residence will be required to make a move bona fide.
  — Ben Thomas | [e-mail], al, 1 Nov. 2022
• This is Amazon’s first bona fide smart home controller, a flat panel designed to be mounted to the wall or popped on a desk.
  — Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, The Verge, 9 Oct. 2024
• Every team in the NFC North is above .500 and every team in that division (at the moment) looks like a bona fide playoff team.
  — Jim Reineking, USA TODAY, 18 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024