How to Use badge of honor/pride in a Sentence

badge of honor/pride

noun phrase

• Here, the body endures, and the sweat is worn like a badge of honor.
  — Ana Gutierrez, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
• Now booking one of these blockbusters is kind of a badge of honor.
  — Guy Trebay, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2024
• Cask strength whiskey has long been a badge of honor for distillers and a thrill ride for drinkers.
  — Emily Price, Forbes.com, 28 June 2025
• Here's what to expect at a restaurant with the badge of honor.
  — Morgan Hines, USA TODAY, 2 Feb. 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, 30 Aug. 2023
• 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
• Does your company's culture view short nights as a badge of honor?
  — Phyllis Ferrell, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025
• The names sound mundane, even for horses, but each is something like a badge of honor.
  — Longreads, 2 Nov. 2022
• There was no mistaking the Ryans, who all donned name tags — a badge of honor.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2023
• 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
• Now, reports of the cruelty are almost worn as a badge of honor.
  — Erin Neil, New Yorker, 17 July 2025
• Quite a badge of honor, to have been beaten by The Man himself.
  — Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 18 May 2024
• Remember when staying late at the office was a badge of honor?
  — B.d. Dalton, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
• 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
• While some of us wear them as a badge of honor, others use various methods to try to erase them.
  — New Atlas, 24 July 2025
• The three-time All-Star embraces the word as an effing badge of honor.
  — Daniel Brown, The Athletic, 12 July 2024
• 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
• Some chefs make a show of their hard work and immoderation, wearing it as a badge of honor.
  — Edward Columbia, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2021
• Where sunglasses are a classic symbol of cool, glasses are like a badge of honor.
  — Rachel Besser, Vogue, 25 Aug. 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
• Carter wore the number throughout his career at Penn State, a badge of honor at the school.
  — Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 9 May 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
• 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
• 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
• The Opening Day roster is a vote of confidence and a badge of honor.
  — Cody Stavenhagen, The Athletic, 25 Mar. 2025
• The players do not wear gloves and often get their fingers jammed and broken, which is considered a badge of honor.
  — Gary Gastelu, Fox News, 30 Sep. 2022
• The game is only a few minutes old, and Chrostowski has earned a baptismal badge of honor.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland, 24 Jan. 2022
• This fleet ages naturally in the Arizona sun, wearing a warm patina as a badge of honor.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 20 Apr. 2024
• 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
• And not only are the outfits more connected to the music, there's a degree of specificity that serves as a kind of badge of honor.
  — Alex Jhamb Burns, Vogue, 20 Oct. 2023