How to Use creditable in a Sentence

creditable

adjective
  • If war is hell, there’s a creditable case Bakhmut is its ninth circle.
    Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2023
  • For there to be an admirable winner, there must also be creditable losers.
    Vlad Savov, The Verge, 26 June 2018
  • Its ten-year earnings growth rate is a highly creditable 23%.
    John Dorfman, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Carey and her crew deserve credit for taking it on and doing a creditable job of it.
    Joanne Engelhardt, The Mercury News, 6 Mar. 2017
  • The more followers a user has can also make nonsense seem creditable.
    Peter Suciu, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2021
  • According to Burkett, there are no other creditable threats known against the schools at this time.
    William Thornton | [email protected], al, 2 Nov. 2022
  • And yet Cape Verde, remarkably, gave them a genuine and creditable scare.
    James Horncastle, New York Times, 4 July 2026
  • Any quibbles about accent are beside the point, especially since her voice work is more than creditable enough.
    David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Sep. 2022
  • This amounts to about 60% of the overall funding if the current estimate is creditable.
    Stephen Wade, chicagotribune.com, 22 Dec. 2021
  • Any increase above that baseline is additional and creditable.
    Lisa Song, Propublica, and James Temple, ProPublica, 12 May 2021
  • The implication is that their very creditable hard work and achievement in one field ought to confer extra weight to their views in other fields.
    Eric Zorn, chicagotribune.com, 14 Dec. 2020
  • And Romesh Ranganathan makes a creditable West End debut as the doctor who lives next door.
    The Week Uk, TheWeek, 16 Jan. 2026
  • The game seemed to be petering out into, for Athletic, a creditable stalemate.
    Rory Smith, New York Times, 19 May 2020
  • Alvarez had a very creditable start (six hits, four runs), as the Spartans tried to win a first state title in their first final appearance.
    Tom Yantz, courant.com, 9 June 2017
  • The calls are believed not to be creditable, yet the investigation continues.
    cleveland, 21 Dec. 2022
  • The Raider does give you a creditable six-speaker system for audio output, comprising two woofers and four tweeters.
    Mark Coppock, PC Magazine, 20 Sep. 2025
  • Still, Milk’s photographic legacy is creditable, and, in light of his murder, haunting.
    Arthur Lubow, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2019
  • Ty alerted the lifeguard, who after questioning him and finding his story to be creditable, reacted and saved the young man’s life.
    Naperville Sun, 6 July 2018
  • Medicare has some formulas to determine whether the coverage is creditable.
    Diane Omdahl, Forbes.com, 2 Apr. 2025
  • What worked and what didn’t for Vancouver At even strength, frankly, the Canucks got creditable performances from most of their skaters.
    Thomas Drance, The Athletic, 22 Feb. 2025
  • Mayfield was a play-action success Sunday, and this is just one of several creditable examples.
    Ellis L. Williams, cleveland, 4 Oct. 2020
  • For very creditable reasons, doubling the Pell Grant will be attractive to the public and Congress.
    Michael Poliakoff, Forbes, 30 Aug. 2021
  • McIlroy had a creditable score of 71 in the second round, including almost making a hole-in-one at No.
    Tom Yantz, courant.com, 16 June 2017
  • Yet the performances were never less than creditable, and the focussed energy of the playing overrode any worries about precision.
    Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 16 May 2022
  • Writer-director Rian Johnson steps into the franchise fray and does a creditable, if uninspired, job.
    Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Dec. 2017
  • An entirely avoidable red card, followed by a creditable but ultimately pointless rally with 10 men?
    Liam Twomey, New York Times, 25 May 2026
  • Fernandes, who is United’s most creative player and led them last season to a creditable second-place finish, has not been at his best, and was recently benched.
    Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2022
  • Those who go more than 63 days without creditable prescription drug coverage pay a penalty for the life of Part D coverage.
    Diane Omdahl, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Encouragingly for Wolves, his rating for one-on-one defending is creditable — in the 73rd percentile.
    Steve Madeley, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Fortunately, there’s an 85°C bakery in the Diamond Jamboree mall with two kinds of very creditable egg tarts.
    Daily Pilot, 6 Sep. 2019

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