How to Use cred in a Sentence

cred

noun
  • 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
  • The river took it away along with every drop of my river cred.
    — Joseph Goodman, al, 14 Apr. 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
  • Our cred depended on not knowing this song, but none of us could help knowing.
    — The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2019
  • Mayer, for his part, was happy to write back and provide outfit creds.
    — Cam Wolf, GQ, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Nathan’s hoop creds are also well-established.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 18 June 2026
  • That could surely do some positive damage to your street cred, right?
    — Charles Infosino, The Enquirer, 1 May 2024
  • The search for genuine suffering is part of the draw, but when done right, the pain adds to celebrity cred.
    — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 27 May 2025
  • But for Boyle, the message to brands is that there’s more to resale than just building green cred.
    — Adriana Lee, WWD, 13 Aug. 2024
  • In it, Homer takes his family to a rock festival to prove his street cred.
    — Bruce Haring, Deadline, 10 July 2024
  • Emilia is very much a pop star, and dating Duki has given her street cred.
    — Jessica Roiz, Billboard, 26 Feb. 2025
  • But, as the brand builds its cred in the running world, its offerings only increase.
    — Sara Coughlin, SELF, 2 June 2025
  • 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
  • But flowery perks aside, the product is steeped in scientific cred.
    — Jenny Berg, Allure, 6 Oct. 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
  • But what’s the point of immortalizing a show that has lost its cultural cred?
    — Armond White, National Review, 1 Jan. 2025
  • But at this point, excluding UC would smear the cred of the whole enterprise.
    — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 23 Nov. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Blue-state pols like Newsom will see this as a battle worth having to burnish their anti-Trump cred.
    — Carlo Versano, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 June 2025
  • Director Chris McKay is looking to add even more geek cred to his resume.
    — Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Feb. 2018
  • For that kind of cred, Powell had to wait for Anyone But You in 2023.
    — Constance Grady, Vox, 18 July 2024
  • Lending celebrity cred to the event was Mindy Kaling, who was apparently in the audience.
    — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Robert Eggers in the home market was building up cineaste cred with his gritty Viking epic The Northman.
    — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 29 Apr. 2025
  • It’s been a good few months for pop-ups putting down brick-and-mortar roots on the Lower East Side, and adding some serious wine cred to the mix.
    — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2025
  • 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 young Starbuck built cred as a MySpace influencer, moved out of his mom’s place at 16 and got married at 18.
    — Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 2 Oct. 2024
  • But whoever first posted that pasta water can be used to water plants doesn't know how to cook pasta correctly, or was just looking for clicks to bolster their social media creds.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 16 Aug. 2025

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