How to Use badge of honor/pride in a Sentence

badge of honor/pride

noun phrase
  • The truth is, learning how to rest is the badge of honor.
    Karin Eldor, Forbes, 4 May 2023
  • While that may be a badge of honor on the mound, that grimy peak may not look as good in the bleachers.
    Maryal Miller Carter, USA TODAY, 10 Feb. 2024
  • While that may be a badge of honor on the mound, that grimy peak may not look as good in the bleachers.
    Maryal Miller Carter, USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Wear your roots like a badge of honor and respect them.
    Teja Chekuri, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024
  • In that way, a round at Bethpage Black is badge of honor.
    Shaun Tolson, Robb Report, 2 July 2022
  • Here's what to expect at a restaurant with the badge of honor.
    Morgan Hines, USA TODAY, 2 Feb. 2023
  • The grind culture is real and worn as a badge of honor.
    John Kormanik, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
  • Quite a badge of honor, to have been beaten by The Man himself.
    Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 18 May 2024
  • The three-time All-Star embraces the word as an effing badge of honor.
    Daniel Brown, The Athletic, 12 July 2024
  • The badge of honor was reserved for those who pulled all-nighters and could still get a full day’s work done.
    Colin Lawlor, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2021
  • Now booking one of these blockbusters is kind of a badge of honor.
    Guy Trebay, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2024
  • There was no mistaking the Ryans, who all donned name tags — a badge of honor.
    Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2023
  • What is a Michelin star?Here's what to expect at a restaurant with the badge of honor.
    USA TODAY, 6 June 2023
  • What is a Michelin star?:Here's what to expect at a restaurant with the badge of honor.
    Morgan Hines, USA TODAY, 29 Jan. 2023
  • The workload for New York’s starters is a badge of honor — and a glaring concern.
    Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Nicotera said the red rash from the shot has become a badge of honor of sorts in the gay community.
    Sun Sentinel, 9 Sep. 2022
  • Carter wore the number throughout his career at Penn State, a badge of honor at the school.
    Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 9 May 2025
  • You've been suspended from Twitter in the past, which feels kind of like a badge of honor in some ways.
    Gideon Lichfield, WIRED, 4 Oct. 2023
  • The Opening Day roster is a vote of confidence and a badge of honor.
    Cody Stavenhagen, The Athletic, 25 Mar. 2025
  • Today, many of them have their $17 mint julep plastic cups stacked high, like a badge of honor, in the infield.
    BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2023
  • The names sound mundane, even for horses, but each is something like a badge of honor.
    Longreads, 2 Nov. 2022
  • How to protect yourself While some used to brag about battling through a flu to get to work, that's no longer a badge of pride, Lockard said.
    Minnah Arshad, The Courier-Journal, 29 Aug. 2023
  • That’s the number that gets bragged about the most, and seven figures appears to be the badge of honor among entrepreneurs.
    Melissa Houston, Forbes.com, 11 May 2025
  • Covered with a tiny blue star, acne feels almost like a badge of honor, not a source of shame.
    Jake Smith, Glamour, 26 Apr. 2022
  • So weirdly, his works have been a badge of honor for me, because the Welsh are obsessed with the Welsh and anything Welsh.
    Adam B. Vary, Variety, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Big Pharma would come after him, but can’t that be turned into a badge of pride in Montana?
    Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 23 Apr. 2023
  • Sometimes a rough hangover is touted as a badge of honor.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
  • Does your company's culture view short nights as a badge of honor?
    Phyllis Ferrell, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025
  • Remember when staying late at the office was a badge of honor?
    B.d. Dalton, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
  • The game is only a few minutes old, and Chrostowski has earned a baptismal badge of honor.
    Marc Bona, cleveland, 24 Jan. 2022

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