How to Use face value in a Sentence

face value

noun
  • Well, some are, but most aren't worth more than their face value.
    — Joyce Orlando, Nashville Tennessean, 13 Nov. 2025
  • The shares were sold at a discount to face value.
    — Melos Ambaye, Bloomberg, 17 Feb. 2026
  • At face value, this might all seem quite silly.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 13 June 2026
  • Tapp said he has been told that the cards can be sold online for less than face value.
    — Waveney Ann Moore, miamiherald, 1 June 2018
  • One way to stop a careless remark is to take it at face value.
    — Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2020
  • On face value those might not seem like big numbers, says Marr.
    — Peter Lane Taylor, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2021
  • There’s no need to take our fashion advice at face value.
    — Maggie Horton, PEOPLE, 23 May 2026
  • That is almost half the price of most face value tickets for the match.
    — Kellis Robinett, Kansas City Star, 9 June 2026
  • To combat scalpers, tickets could not be resold for more than face value.
    — Jade Gomez, People.com, 14 Oct. 2024
  • Buy an old bond issued when yields were higher, and the price will be above face value.
    — James MacKintosh, WSJ, 23 June 2019
  • At face value, the world of Pandora should be too big to fail.
    — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 17 Dec. 2022
  • The face value of each ticket was $475.
    — Michael Butler, Miami Herald, 20 Jan. 2026
  • At the time, they were largely accepted at face value and sold well.
    — Alex Palmer, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Mar. 2021
  • On face value, the idea of a government board who will cap the price of these drugs seems like a good idea.
    — J.d. Davidson | The Center Square, The Washington Examiner, 25 Apr. 2025
  • Today’s scalpers use bots to game the system and charge double the face value, or more.
    — Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Scharf sold the credit checks on eBay for as low as 50% of face value.
    — Shannon Prather, Star Tribune, 4 Dec. 2020
  • Don’t take everything at face value.
    — William Jones, Miami Herald, 20 May 2026
  • Stuff as far back as 1930, some of those bills may be worth quite a bit more than face value.
    — Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Sep. 2025
  • PwC seems to have taken his reply at face value and put the issue aside.
    — Ben Hallman, Quartz Africa, 19 Jan. 2020
  • Though cautious to take things at face value, You fans couldn't hide their shock at every glimpse.
    — Jacqueline Saguin, Good Housekeeping, 18 Feb. 2023
  • In the meantime, viewers are left to take what the company says at face value.
    — Angela Watercutter, Wired, 19 Nov. 2021
  • The output is polished enough that most people would accept it at face value.
    — Anuradha Weeraman, Forbes.com, 20 Mar. 2026
  • As of this writing, there are only a handful of tickets still for sale at face value.
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Service fees can add as much as 32 percent to the face value of a ticket.
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 May 2024
  • The team employees will be fined double the amount of the ticket’s face value.
    — Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 25 July 2025
  • There's a tiny voice in my head that says charging you money to buy tickets over face value might be against the law.
    — Doug MacCash, NOLA.com, 28 Mar. 2018
  • Some retailers offer discounts off the face value of the card, which can make up some or all of the fees.
    — Jim Sergent, USA TODAY, 23 Dec. 2024
  • There's the tawdry true crime series that has no choice but to accept the things that Cameron claims at face value.
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Apr. 2018
  • Thus, the moral of this story is that no one should ever take what Amazon does at face value.
    — Chris Walton, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2022
  • Otherwise, your one-cent coin is likely worth only its face value.
    — Addy Bink, The Hill, 30 Dec. 2025

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