How to Use credence in a Sentence

credence

noun

• I'm afraid I don't put much credence in common gossip.
• The theory is gaining credence among scientists.
• Your film doesn’t seem to lend much credence to the report.
  — Chris Lee, Vulture, 18 Jan. 2021
• How much credence should the rest of the world put in Dai’s statements?
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 10 Dec. 2018
• There’s no use lending heavy credence to the stat sheet or the scoreboard.
  — Jeremy Woo, SI.com, 16 July 2017
• The other denials have gained no credence in the media.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 8 July 2018
• Rogers gave some credence to that idea with a huge tackle in the spring game – the biggest hit the entire night.
  — Joseph Hoyt, Dallas News, 7 June 2022
• These moments gave more credence to the nudity in the finale.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 24 Apr. 2022
• Gilbert says there is credence to the bad precedent argument.
  — Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 28 July 2022
• For those who have long disagreed with the industry, the new study adds credence to their beliefs.
  — Brett Sholtis, USA TODAY, 31 May 2017
• The same goes for putting too much credence in indicators that say the risk of a recession is still very low.
  — Justin Lahart, WSJ, 4 July 2022
• Women who already have credence and power and things like that.
  — Morgan Greene, chicagotribune.com, 21 Feb. 2018
• The selections lend much credence to what’s been said all along about this senior group.
  — Chris Hays, Orlando Sentinel, 2 Jan. 2023
• If not, the company is one of the three major credit bureaus, and that gives it all the credence.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 June 2022
• The array of buildings discovered lends credence to the idea that this city could have played a major role in the region.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 13 July 2023
• The act led credence to the possibility of their love affair.
  — ELLE, 30 Mar. 2022
• And when risks are more palpable, people tend to give them too much credence.
  — The Economist, 9 June 2018
• Some hope the documents set for release will either give credence or squash them for good.
  — Brittney McNamara, Teen Vogue, 26 Oct. 2017
• But the fact that polling continues to show the same dynamic adds credence to the idea that voters are splitting their votes.
  — Ben Kamisar, NBC News, 29 July 2022
• But some not supporting his campaign have lent credence to the concerns.
  — Joseph Simonson, Washington Examiner, 9 Mar. 2020
• Twitter has since removed the screenshots on behalf of the copyright holder, adding credence to the leak.
  — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 11 Jan. 2022
• But that peek behind the curtain was enough to give credence to seemingly any biotech bull case online.
  — Damian Garde, STAT, 26 Dec. 2019
• The tumultuous nature of the past year—if not longer—has given credence to the idea that change is the only constant.
  — Rhett Power, Forbes, 13 June 2021
• But to grant it that credence requires another kind of looking-away.
  — Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 20 May 2021
• Placing any credence in these assurances would be a fool’s game.
  — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2021
• On-field developments since then have lent more credence to that line of thinking.
  — Chris Johnson, SI.com, 26 June 2017
• Some leading central bankers are now giving it greater credence.
  — Paul Hannon, WSJ, 22 Sep. 2017
• He was scorned for seeming to lend credence to the party’s propaganda.
  — The Economist, 15 July 2017
• But the find added credence to suspicions that donkey skins have been shifting onto the black market.
  — National Geographic, 22 Sep. 2017
• Television replays lent more than enough credence to make those claims.
  — John Henry, star-telegram, 9 Dec. 2017

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024