How to Use credible in a Sentence

credible

adjective
  • She does a credible job of playing the famous singer.
  • We've received credible information about the group's location.
  • Ensure the links are valid and lead to credible sources.
    Bruce Weinstein, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Police said the threat has been proven not to be credible.
    Ben Kesling, WSJ, 14 Feb. 2023
  • In one of the less credible turns, at day’s end Josephine sends Mimosa a used red dress and shoes as a present.
    Caryn James, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Sep. 2023
  • The accusers had to be deemed credible, and they could not be paid or of evil repute.
    Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
  • The state says there is no evidence of that, but the judge found Miller’s claim credible.
    Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 21 Sep. 2022
  • It was determined the threat was not credible and the boy had no access to guns.
    Andy Attina / Cleveland.com, cleveland, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Police found the calls that warned of a student having a gun and a bomb were not credible.
    Lilly Price, Baltimore Sun, 21 Nov. 2022
  • The judge did not disclose any details about the threats against him, or whether any of them were deemed credible.
    Marshall Cohen, CNN, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Since the over has cashed in five of the past six head-to-head meetings, our argument feels even more credible.
    Michael Arinze, Chicago Tribune, 30 Jan. 2023
  • That was one of the main concerns, just to sound credible and believable.
    Esther Zuckerman, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Dec. 2022
  • One online threat to shoot up a polling place in Detroit was deemed not credible.
    Detroit Free Press Staff, Detroit Free Press, 6 Nov. 2024
  • None of the theories plumbed so far by news outlets seems credible enough to stand on its own.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 4 May 2023
  • At the core of NATO is the credible threat of a strong, united response to aggression.
    M. E. Sarotte, Foreign Affairs, 10 July 2023
  • This in my mind is now the only credible prospect for the final leg up and is not exactly a long shot.
    Clem Chambers, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
  • None of the threats and the have been deemed credible, but did delay at least some voters from casting ballots.
    Karissa Waddick, USA TODAY, 6 Nov. 2024
  • Last but not least, your brand promise must be credible.
    Yec, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2023
  • The threat has since been deemed not credible, media reports said.
    Taylor Pettaway, San Antonio Express-News, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Employees need to believe the data is credible, from its source all the way through the pipeline.
    Sheila Callaham, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • And there are no credible news reports that Ukraine has received these weapons.
    Molly Stellino, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2022
  • And, of course, the public reaction told us that the public did not think that those answers were credible or good.
    Stephanie Petit, Peoplemag, 5 Apr. 2024
  • The commission in 2017 also found Murray’s claims to be credible and referred it to a judge.
    Madeline Buckley, Chicago Tribune, 21 Mar. 2023
  • The self-praise would be more credible if the long-range aircraft weren’t so urgently needed.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 5 Dec. 2022
  • The first credible report of a Burmese python on Key Largo was made in the mid-2000s, but exactly how many of the snakes have made their home on the island in the past couple of decades isn’t clear.
    Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 20 Mar. 2023
  • In the offseason, the Lions will have to shore up their defense to be a credible team in future seasons.
    Chris Ilenstine, Chicago Tribune, 1 Jan. 2023
  • Krasňanský found these two young men credible right away.
    Jonathan Freedland, Time, 29 Dec. 2022
  • The Clippers have made a credible case to be one of those teams because their players have found new ways to play since Harden’s arrival.
    Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2024
  • The Saudis want a credible pathway to a Palestinian state as the precondition of any deal, while the Israeli public and the current government are not ready to accept that.
    Stuart E. Eizenstat, The Atlantic, 2 Dec. 2024
  • The information was credible: the Laffer curve was destined to lead a forthcoming tax-cut and, thereby, an economic-growth revolution.
    Brian Domitrovic, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024

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