How to Use bona fides in a Sentence

bona fides

noun

• 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
• The Colts have proven their bona fides as legit AFC contenders.
  — Scott Horner, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Dec. 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Trump supporters cheered the appointment, and not just because of Durham's bona fides.
  — Eric Tucker, ajc, 19 Oct. 2022
• Even celebrities seeking to burnish their eco-friendly bona fides were smitten with the car.
  — Tim De Chant, Wired, 28 July 2021
• In the meantime, Yang ticked off all the boxes to establish his Communist bona fides.
  — Barbara Demick, The Atlantic, 18 Dec. 2020
• The deal likely means Simmons will end his year-long holdout and play for the Nets soon, giving them defensive bona fides.
  — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Feb. 2022
• The lunch went swimmingly nonetheless, in large part because Nivola had the Italian bona fides Chase prizes.
  — Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 2 Sep. 2021
• 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
• But in establishing his bona fides, his 27th season proved at least one too many.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 11 May 2021
• Last year, a new food cart with serious smash burger bona fides rode into town.
  — Michael Russell, oregonlive, 30 Mar. 2021
• The sheriff touted his law-and-order bona fides, and GOP groups sought to make an issue out of Kulkarni’s drug arrest as a teen.
  — Tom Benning, Dallas News, 3 Nov. 2020
• More than her cringiest assertions of woke bona fides, more than even her treatment of Steve, this is the thing that’s hardest to swallow.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 4 Feb. 2022
• For decades, rappers have bragged about their bona fides while denouncing rivals as phonies.
  — New York Times, 14 Mar. 2022
• His tough talk -- the autocrat's calling card -- is also an emblem of his populist man-of-the-people bona fides.
  — Frida Ghitis, CNN, 9 Feb. 2022
• Brands are no doubt also aware that such coolers’ survivalist bona fides are a big part of their appeal.
  — Sal Vaglica, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2022
• Today’s gurus aren’t defined by Wall Street bona fides.
  — Akane Otani, WSJ, 21 Mar. 2021
• In two wins to open the series, the Bucks have re-established their bona fides as a serious title contender.
  — Matt Eppers, USA TODAY, 27 May 2021

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