How to Use credulity in a Sentence

credulity

noun
  • The start of this episode really strained all credulity for me, though.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 28 Nov. 2021
  • But its strengths more than make up for its occasional credulity strains.
    — Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2021
  • Trump stretched credulity on a variety of subjects over the past week, trade among them.
    — Washington Post, 26 Mar. 2018
  • Some of his actions and views strain credulity and feel overdetermined.
    — Leland Cheuk, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2023
  • But then the show became a strident piece of agitprop that strained credulity.
    — Omid Khazani and Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2021
  • Still, a few are worth mentioning if only because their prices strain credulity.
    — Steve Siler, Car and Driver, 29 Sep. 2017
  • Yet many in the media greeted the report with utter credulity.
    — Ted Rall, WSJ, 1 Apr. 2021
  • For none of them to repeat in the 80 days Kepler stared at the star strained credulity.
    — Adam Mann, Scientific American, 3 July 2019
  • The makers of religion can stretch the bounds of credulity in the name of a higher purpose.
    — Dominic Green, WSJ, 16 Sep. 2022
  • To say this all neat typology strains credulity is to miss the point and be miserable.
    — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 16 Mar. 2018
  • When the age of science dawned, men of reason tended to mock the ancients for their childish credulity.
    — Tom Fort, WSJ, 28 July 2017
  • This sort of credulity is both Rogan’s biggest draw and his worst tendency.
    — Jack Crosbie, Rolling Stone, 26 Jan. 2022
  • That said, there are times when Vogt seems to flicker between credulity and skepticism.
    — Vulture, 20 Apr. 2022
  • There was this fear of missing out that explains a lot of Walgreens’ sort of credulity and lack of due diligence.
    — Recode Staff, Recode, 3 June 2018
  • His secrecy is at times maddening, stretching the bounds of credulity even.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 3 Apr. 2020
  • All of it — again, apparently done with no warning or prep time for Levy — comes off with bizarre credulity.
    — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Even so, the broad flourishing of these stores can nonetheless challenge credulity.
    — Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 22 June 2023
  • Even if one or more vaccines is authorized for emergency use by the end of this year, those numbers stretch credulity.
    — Hope Yen, Star Tribune, 20 Sep. 2020
  • The answer to all of these questions is, of course, that the movie’s way is creepier, even as its setup sometimes strains credulity.
    — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2026
  • To do what Rose did in that upper graph is to strain reality (and credulity) past the breaking point.
    — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 23 Oct. 2012
  • Cape Fear strains credulity a little by making Natalie too easy a mark.
    — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 19 June 2026
  • Except for the fact that, straining credulity, Epstein is real.
    — Ben Smith, semafor.com, 17 Nov. 2025
  • But the notion of Ramaphosa as the good knight who would rescue a troubled country always strained credulity.
    — John Rapley, Foreign Affairs, 10 Jan. 2023
  • The first American outlets to cover the app treated its premise with credulity.
    — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 1 Aug. 2022
  • One of the flopping’s great pleasures is how renowned play-by-play man Ian Darke treats each one with the utmost credulity.
    — Zach Przystup, Baltimore Sun, 11 July 2024
  • However, many of the sky-is-falling claims made by those sympathetic to the status quo strain credulity.
    — Patrick Hruby, Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2020
  • In Bacon’s view, too many people lapse into a credulity of habit, simply accepting what they have been told over and over.
    — Richard Gunderman, The Conversation, 1 May 2020
  • In cases where the profit motive and the social good are in conflict, the Roundtable statement begs credulity.
    — Roger Lowenstein, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2019
  • Molière’s play indicts Orgon’s credulity and Tartuffe’s deceit equally.
    — Henry Alford, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025
  • But the film also defies credulity as Rachel seems to give-up on seeking help from the police in favor of battling the monster herself.
    — Will Coviello, NOLA.com, 21 Aug. 2020

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