How to Use face value in a Sentence

face value

noun

• There need to be laws passed prohibiting reselling above face value.
  — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 10 May 2024
• Health experts say the models are extremely complex and shouldn’t be taken at face value.
  — Dallas News, 5 May 2020
• But taking the data at face value, the numbers look to be trending down, even as last week represented the peak of the virus’s curve so far in Alabama.
  — Ramsey Archibald | [e-mail], al, 6 June 2020
• As the momentum behind the demand grows, policymakers struggle to accept it at face value.
  — Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 9 June 2020
• At face value, its distinction from an epidemic is merely spatial—a disease that is literally worldwide versus widespread.
  — Sabrina Sholts, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Feb. 2020
• China’s domestic corporate-bond market is one of the world’s largest, with a total face value of about $5.1 trillion, according to Wind.
  — Xie Yu, WSJ, 10 June 2020
• Given this history, the willingness of the WHO to take China's statements at face value is shocking.
  — Fox News, 31 Mar. 2020
• Taken at face value, the allegations paint the picture of a program with a race problem but also a deficiency in treating players with basic dignity.
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 9 June 2020
• Something Corporate is using a face value fan-to-fan exchange for the upcoming tour in markets where that’s allowed so that tickets can only be sold for what they were originally paid for.
  — Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 9 May 2024
• The group has wiped out debt with a face value of more than $5.3 billion.
  — Jeff Amy, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2021
• Scharf sold the credit checks on eBay for as low as 50% of face value.
  — Shannon Prather, Star Tribune, 4 Dec. 2020
• But the real smooth-brained move is to take memes at face value.
  — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 24 Nov. 2020
• At face value, the world of Pandora should be too big to fail.
  — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 17 Dec. 2022
• Note the question mark, though: That means that the clue should not be taken at face value.
  — Deb Amlen, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2023
• But do those costs add up to the 20% above face value that ATRs are permitted to charge?
  — David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2021
• One way to stop a careless remark is to take it at face value.
  — Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2020
• Bryson says to avoid taking these claims at face value.
  — Simon Hill, WIRED, 28 Sep. 2022
• Companies will be able to claim 90% of the face value of the credit, with the payout stretched over five years.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 27 June 2023
• Service fees can add as much as 32 percent to the face value of a ticket.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 May 2024
• In other words, the face value of the coin is so much lower than the value of the metal inside.
  — Brad Auerbach, SPIN, 8 Sep. 2022
• On face value those might not seem like big numbers, says Marr.
  — Peter Lane Taylor, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2021
• Those numbers sound like good news, at least at face value.
  — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 30 Sep. 2022
• Up to this time, the Chinese and Mongols had taken us at face value.
  — National Geographic, 30 June 2020
• In the meantime, viewers are left to take what the company says at face value.
  — Angela Watercutter, Wired, 19 Nov. 2021
• But most researchers take the work of Bell, Clauser, Aspect, Zeilinger and their teams at face value.
  — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 4 Oct. 2022
• The fund sold century bonds with a face value of $500 million.
  — Anna Hirtenstein, WSJ, 6 Oct. 2022
• The movie's title is not supposed to be taken at face value.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 12 Feb. 2022
• At the time, they were largely accepted at face value and sold well.
  — Alex Palmer, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Mar. 2021
• Though cautious to take things at face value, You fans couldn't hide their shock at every glimpse.
  — Jacqueline Saguin, Good Housekeeping, 18 Feb. 2023
• Thus, the moral of this story is that no one should ever take what Amazon does at face value.
  — Chris Walton, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2022

Last Updated: 23 Oct 2024