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.
  • Some of what the pranksters say or do for the sake of a gag skirts credibility.
    — Television Critic, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2026
  • The word indie has lost a lot of its credibility over the years.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 18 Jan. 2024
  • What gives this some credibility is that so many people saw the same thing.
    — Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 14 June 2023
  • At work, use your credibility as a weapon.
    — Tamar Gakharia, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • Its credibility will rest on who is chosen to serve.
    — Vilas Dhar, Time, 25 Sep. 2025
  • So that gave me a little bit of credibility, too.
    — Skyler Trepel, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2025
  • The road back to credibility is long.
    — Julian Baron, Baltimore Sun, 18 Mar. 2026
  • But more than two years into the war, the credibility of these threats is starting to wane.
    — Joshua Keating, Vox, 5 June 2024
  • The same risk now comes for credibility.
    — Gabriel Alin Zainescu, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
  • But the point is that there is a credibility issue here, Chris.
    — ABC News, 1 May 2022
  • The credibility of state troopers was on the line, Davis said.
    — Dennis Romero, NBC News, 2 Sep. 2023
  • Now, its new chief justice has vowed to restore the court’s credibility.
    — Hasan Ali, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 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
  • The threat drew credibility from the recent strikes on Iran.
    — Eric Cortellessa, Time, 23 Oct. 2025
  • But that doesn’t take away from its timing credibility and purpose.
    — Thor Svaboe, Robb Report, 28 Aug. 2025
  • The county has stood by the credibility of its report.
    — Ryan MacAsero, Mercury News, 15 Mar. 2026
  • This is her career, her credibility — and really, at the end of the day — her sense of self-worth.
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 6 Feb. 2026
  • But now Fox doesn’t have to care about mainstream credibility.
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 25 Apr. 2023
  • For many, the church has lost a great deal of moral and spiritual credibility.
    — Martin Scorsese, Time, 15 Apr. 2026
  • That balance builds trust and long-term credibility.
    — Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 4 Feb. 2026
  • The credibility of both men has been called into question.
    — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Toyota has a lot of off-road credibility and heritage.
    — Joel Feder, The Drive, 26 Mar. 2026
  • The rest of my life depended on how these men rated my credibility.
    — Joe Garcia, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2025
  • When the credibility crisis hits, founders start looking for answers in all the wrong places.
    — David Sinkinson, Fortune, 5 Aug. 2024
  • Another problem is the spread of fake news and the credibility of sources.
    — Charlotte Observer, 21 May 2024
  • They’re built on talent, credibility and human trust earned over years.
    — Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 3 June 2026

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