How to Use cred in a Sentence

cred

noun

• Advertisement Entertainment & Arts Kevin Costner’s son doesn’t have ‘a lot’ of acting cred.
  — Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2024
• That, along with the tie width, give him new-gen cred to go with his new-gen pitch.
  — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 24 June 2019
• But few of those Cassandras have the tech cred of Mr. Musk.
  — New York Times, 9 June 2018
• The trendy tender will have plenty of street (or ocean?) cred, too.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 17 July 2023
• My scabs, which are imprinted on my kneecaps, give me some street cred, at least to me.
  — Abby Ellin, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 May 2024
• The river took it away along with every drop of my river cred.
  — Joseph Goodman, al, 14 Apr. 2023
• But at this point, excluding UC would smear the cred of the whole enterprise.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 23 Nov. 2021
• No one can match his socialist cred, built up over decades.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 31 Jan. 2020
• The optional carbon-ceramic brakes add cred to the M in front of the Gran Coupe's 8 and better withstand the abuse of a track day.
  — Austin Irwin, Car and Driver, 18 July 2023
• The daffy has hot-dog roots but enough vestigial cred to induce a new-schooler to tip his trucker hat.
  — Nick Paumgarten, Outside Online, 11 July 2018
• Mayer, for his part, was happy to write back and provide outfit creds.
  — Cam Wolf, GQ, 26 Apr. 2018
• Tour the rest of the house: Now that Galli has given the digs downtown cred, Samuels is obsessed with her new neighborhood.
  — House Beautiful, 6 June 2019
• Our cred depended on not knowing this song, but none of us could help knowing.
  — The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2019
• That could surely do some positive damage to your street cred, right?
  — Charles Infosino, The Enquirer, 1 May 2024
• Comics can garner applause and earn street cred for letting some air out of the pomposity of these events.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 5 Feb. 2024
• The flowy layers leave a little length up front for styling versatility, while the short back lends true crop cred.
  — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 10 Oct. 2023
• Serving simple favorites while camping gets you four-star cred – the atmosphere and the post-hiking hunger do the rest.
  — Cindy Dampier, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
• Having a team of lawyers making sure only real Banksys are labelled as such doesn’t do much for your street cred.
  — Tyson Mitman, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2023
• And that, to some degree, has been its core problem: denting its luxury cred.
  — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 24 Apr. 2020
• Director Chris McKay is looking to add even more geek cred to his resume.
  — Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Feb. 2018
• On her way to the bathroom that night, Ms. Thun saw the Datograph, snapped a photo and through her research, learned the piece had serious watchmaking cred.
  — Victoria Gomelsky, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2020
• Lending celebrity cred to the event was Mindy Kaling, who was apparently in the audience.
  — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 12 Apr. 2024
• Adding to the gin's Cincinnati cred is the bottle's label, which was done by local illustrator Robin Carnes.
  — Keith Pandolfi, The Enquirer, 20 Apr. 2023
• In a way, Coachella’s association with Do LaB gives the festival a touch of cool cred.
  — Lily Moayeri, Variety, 13 Apr. 2023
• Californian cities don’t always get all of the cred for being pricey AF, though.
  — Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 18 Nov. 2019
• Host cities hail them as economic drivers and clear indicators of their food-and-bev cred.
  — Hanna Raskin, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2019
• The color red has age-old cred: In Colonial times, a red front door indicated weary travelers were welcome to spend the night.
  — Erin Cavoto, Country Living, 19 Mar. 2023
• That’s a canny move to build cred, but not one that aims for chart dominance; a No. 8 debut makes all the sense in the world for an experimental LP like this.
  — Eric Renner Brown, Billboard, 9 May 2023
• So our notion was that Pip would bestow French cred on us, inspire the French to view us almost as indigenous: a couple of locals.
  — New York Times, 21 Feb. 2018
• Now in her second season with the San Francisco arena, Nazario-Mendoza brings a global resume and local cred to the role.
  — Linda Zavoral, The Mercury News, 8 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 7 Sep 2024