How to Use credibility in a Sentence

credibility

noun
  • In this instance, the lawyer's job is to make the jury doubt the witness's credibility.
  • The new evidence lends credibility to their theory.
  • The scandal undermined her credibility as an honest politician.
  • The earl called the BBC to vouch for Bashir’s credibility.
    Elise Taylor, Vogue, 11 Nov. 2022
  • The word indie has lost a lot of its credibility over the years.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 18 Jan. 2024
  • But over time, the regard for the group seems to have risen, along with its credibility.
    George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Sep. 2023
  • The credibility of state troopers was on the line, Davis said.
    Dennis Romero, NBC News, 2 Sep. 2023
  • For now, the Fed has drawn a red line at 2 percent, and its credibility is at stake.
    Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Meadors argued the defense is trying to take the jury away from the facts and credibility of the case.
    Elise Hammond, CNN, 2 Mar. 2023
  • But more than two years into the war, the credibility of these threats is starting to wane.
    Joshua Keating, Vox, 5 June 2024
  • What gives this some credibility is that so many people saw the same thing.
    Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 14 June 2023
  • Police did not give exact details of the email but said Friday that the credibility of the threat was low.
    Lilly Price, Baltimore Sun, 21 Nov. 2022
  • The case shredded to pieces the little that remained of the talk channel’s credibility.
    Oliver Darcy, CNN, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Another problem is the spread of fake news and the credibility of sources.
    Charlotte Observer, 21 May 2024
  • He's already been praised for bringing a new level of credibility to one of the worst franchises in the league the past two decades.
    Arkansas Online, 2 Nov. 2022
  • In 1997, one of his sons was killed fighting the Israelis, which has since become a main source of his credibility.
    Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024
  • The credibility of the claims in both lawsuits were questions by the defendants.
    Kate Mangels, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Sep. 2023
  • In the interim, Hamas will gain more credibility within both Gaza and the West Bank.
    Salam Fayyad, Foreign Affairs, 20 June 2024
  • Sometimes the mere act of attendance in a war game can lend credibility to the game’s outcomes.
    Jacquelyn Schneider, Foreign Affairs, 26 Dec. 2023
  • When the credibility crisis hits, founders start looking for answers in all the wrong places.
    David Sinkinson, Fortune, 5 Aug. 2024
  • Hill said Lee’s previous work brings tons of credibility to the search.
    Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 29 July 2024
  • The credibility of a central bank is a terrible thing to waste.
    The Editors, National Review, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Now, its new chief justice has vowed to restore the court’s credibility.
    Hasan Ali, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Sep. 2023
  • But in the long run, Modi’s project will take a toll on the authority and credibility of the Indian state.
    Sushant Singh, Foreign Affairs, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Charles' wound would lead to seven hours of life-threatening surgery, which those close to the case said strengthened the credibility of his story.
    Christina Coulter, Fox News, 16 Dec. 2023
  • When Lyles collapsed, so did the credibility of those responsible for health at the Olympic Games.
    Arthur L. Caplan, STAT, 9 Aug. 2024
  • But brands are pulling back from Twitter due to concerns about damage to their credibility on a platform where imposters and hate speech are on the rise.
    Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 15 Nov. 2022
  • At the same time, the credibility of the office was on the line because the amount of evidence in the public domain about the scale of abuses in Xinjiang is overwhelming.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2022
  • The constant improvisation during his second term has now stretched the credibility of his leadership right to the limit.
    Dermot Corrigan, The Athletic, 2 Jan. 2025
  • That background gave him an unusual street credibility within the BJP, whose original support base lay with upper-caste Hindus.
    Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 2 Jan. 2025

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