How to Use credo in a Sentence

credo

noun
  • But there was a life-goes-on vibe that has to be part of a player’s credo.
    — SI.com, 11 Sep. 2017
  • Their credo is fear — fear of the future, fear of the stranger, fear of change.
    — Sacramento Bee Staff, Sacbee.com, 8 Jan. 2026
  • But through it all, the exception to this credo have been his books.
    — Erik Maza, Town & Country, 3 Jan. 2019
  • This week is one to discover your credo that’s always been by your side.
    — Bess Matassa, Teen Vogue, 7 Apr. 2018
  • Play whisper down the lane with your ideas and let that give birth to an entirely new credo.
    — Bess Matassa, Teen Vogue, 28 July 2017
  • The credo of Fat Ham is that famous quote about being true to thine own self.
    — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Seems like neither Trekkie is living up to the show’s live-long-and-prosper credo.
    — Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2021
  • The brand credo is to bring max style and quality with mini prices and tight collections.
    — Celia Shatzman, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2024
  • The credo now might be wait and see; the Jazz have a lot of young talent and now will get even deeper on that front.
    — Tim Reynolds, Chicago Tribune, 11 May 2026
  • Accordingly, their credo tends to be that a good offense is the best defense.
    — Anna Mulrine Grobe, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 May 2020
  • That’s a credo that goes all the way back to Hoover, and it’s taken very seriously.
    — New York Times, 1 Sep. 2021
  • At the event, Wang spoke to her style credos–both for holiday and wedding dressing.
    — Carrie Goldberg, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 Dec. 2016
  • Service is something of a credo for Moore, almost a sacred idea.
    — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 18 July 2023
  • This was the credo of a tactician, a weigher of costs and benefits, who had no patience for child’s play.
    — New York Times, 28 Apr. 2026
  • There's a difference between a serial cheater and who lives life by the credo that cheatin' equals tryin'.
    — Kent Somers, azcentral, 13 Jan. 2020
  • The world would not be free, as the credo of the day advised, until the last king was strangled with the intestines of the last priest.
    — Christopher Ketcham, Harper's magazine, 22 July 2019
  • The atmosphere has changed since then, but the credo of simple food and friendly service remains.
    — Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Feb. 2022
  • What is not a matter of dispute is that Arledge and McKay took the credo to heart.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 24 Apr. 2021
  • The Republican credo is that taxes just keep going up and up.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 14 July 2019
  • That credo reasserts itself as Polly begins to be haunted by visions of her loved ones.
    — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Hamas rose in the 1980s on a credo of resistance against Israel.
    — The Economist, 14 Nov. 2019
  • Sondheim’s credo was to write songs for his shows’ characters, and that directive is respected here with the cream of the crop.
    — Frank Rizzo, Variety, 9 Apr. 2025
  • After an hour of conversation, Pelosi seemed to come up with a credo that was in line with Johnson.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2024
  • An Englishman named Bryan Ferry seemed to carry this idea like a credo.
    — Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2020
  • Such is the credo of the about-to-open Hotel Renaissance Paris République.
    — Alison Beckner, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Apr. 2016
  • The closest Babur comes to expressing a credo is in a passage from the year 1507.
    — Manavi Kapur, Quartz India, 8 Nov. 2019
  • But she's had a couple of experiences that severely tested that credo.
    — Jim Higgins, jsonline.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • But the March credo of survive and advance was on full display in what went from a clinic, to a collapse, and ended in a comeback.
    — oregonlive, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Islamic credo teaches that the more one memorizes the Quran, the higher one’s rank in heaven.
    — Andrew R. Chow, Time, 26 May 2026
  • Then there's his credo for the UCLA defense, which requires only one word and speaks for itself.
    — Ben Bolch, latimes.com, 13 Mar. 2018

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