How to Use face value in a Sentence

face value

noun

• PwC seems to have taken his reply at face value and put the issue aside.
  — Ben Hallman, Quartz Africa, 19 Jan. 2020
• Within an hour of the pre-sale, tickets appeared on re-selling sites for triple the face value.
  — Rebecca Schneid, TIME, 1 Sep. 2024
• And Welser-Most was right: the third movement could not be taken at face value.
  — Zachary Lewis, cleveland, 31 Jan. 2020
• And the idea that even one viewer might take its convictions at face value, and then act on them, feels like no joke at all.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 10 Sep. 2019
• Domestic currency held by the public costs a fraction of its face value to produce.
  — Andy Mukherjee | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2019
• The committee argues that it isn’t required to take Trump’s claims at face value in light of the evidence.
  — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 7 Dec. 2019
• The peso has dropped by 30% in the past 12 months, and the country’s dollar bonds trade at less than half their face value.
  — The Economist, 5 Sep. 2019
• Here in the narcissism capital, Mr. Lin’s sweetness and sunshine can be hard to take at face value.
  — Brooks Barnes, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2019
• Many gun owners are also unwilling to turn over the weapons, and if the government offered to buy them all back at face value, the price tag could easily run into the billions of dollars.
  — Lisa Marie Pane, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Sep. 2019
• But taken at face value, this is a particularly interesting tidbit.
  — Michael Simon, PCWorld, 17 Jan. 2020
• If police suspect a youth of possession of a THC device, it’s not taken at face value, Nelson said.
  — Karen Zurawski, Houston Chronicle, 17 Oct. 2019
• And yet many of the members of Congress at last week’s hearing—the Republican ones, to be precise—seemed to take Zuckerberg’s rationale at face value.
  — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2019
• 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
• There need to be laws passed prohibiting reselling above face value.
  — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 10 May 2024

Last Updated: 4 Nov 2024