How to Use legitimate in a Sentence

legitimate

1 of 2 adjective

• There's no legitimate reason for prescribing this medication to a child.
• Even in many courtrooms, where there is valid concern about the privacy of defendants, judges recognize that camera coverage serves a legitimate public interest.
  — New Republic, 22 Feb. 1993
• There is still much to fight for, and many legitimate ways to do it.
  — The Arizona Republic, 22 Apr. 2023
• Then the campaign to make the idea real and legitimate was to go place by place.
  — How To Save A Country, The New Republic, 6 Oct. 2022
• How much of that was legitimate and how much of it was fool’s gold?
  — Jerry Beach, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2021
• So why not build a legitimate contender for when the place is packed again?
  — John Shea, SFChronicle.com, 29 Aug. 2020
• Those are the schools that have a legitimate shot at winning a title.
  — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 17 Jan. 2020
• Kennedy said both sides in the case raised legitimate concerns.
  — Greg Stohr, Bloomberg.com, 4 June 2018
• The man could be legitimate, a thief, or a criminal on the run.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 24 Aug. 2023
• Oregon finally has a legitimate deep threat again and a weapon in the middle of the field.
  — oregonlive, 26 Sep. 2022
• If the papers are legitimate, this could be huge news for the culture.
  — Jessica McKinney, Billboard, 8 Nov. 2017
• Trump’s call to be an effort to find votes that were not legitimate.
  — Mike Cason | [e-mail], al, 4 Mar. 2022
• In a legitimate ad, clicking such a button would close the ad.
  — Mark Hachman, PCWorld, 6 Nov. 2018
• But in fairness to them, a lot of legitimate words do sound made-up.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 28 Feb. 2017
• With him, the Jazz have a legitimate chance at winning.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 Feb. 2022
• There are legitimate questions about whether any of this will turn out to be legal.
  — Erika D. Smith Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2021
• Thomas has a legitimate shot at landing in the late first round if a team is sold on his defense and shooting.
  — Jeremy Woo, SI.com, 21 June 2018
• Bernard then asks Tim out on a legitimate date, which the young hero accepts.
  — NBC News, 11 Aug. 2021
• Could this photo be a legitimate clue or a red herring?
  — Leah Rocketto, Woman's Day, 31 Jan. 2020
• To be sure, some legitimate concerns about a mass move to mail-in voting still need to be ironed out.
  — Lila MacLellan, Quartz, 6 Nov. 2020
• Rodgers will keep us in legitimate contention this year.
  — Daniel Kohn, Spin, 6 Sep. 2023
• Moving the stock price is a legitimate quest, and that has already happened.
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 7 Feb. 2024
• At the moment, the call seemed legitimate and there wasn’t much of an argument.
  — Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 Oct. 2021
• Karako agreed that shooting it down poses a legitimate risk to people on the ground.
  — Denise Chow, NBC News, 3 Feb. 2023
• But none of them can be dismissed as a legitimate threat, either.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 11 July 2020
• Start putting these seals on it to show this is official, this is legitimate.
  — National Geographic, 30 June 2020
• That’s a major red flag that the news report isn’t legitimate.
  — Robin Terry Brown, National Geographic, 19 Oct. 2020
• Smith didn’t believe there was legitimate reason to call the play dead over lack of forward progress.
  — oregonlive, 26 Sep. 2022
• There are legitimate concerns around the fires, Roberts said.
  — Madeline Holcombe, CNN, 17 Sep. 2020
• The rising junior is a legitimate all-purpose back — and a speedy one, at that.
  — The Courier-Journal, 1 Aug. 2022

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legitimate

2 of 2 verb

• Her tendency to be secretive only serves to legitimate their suspicions.
• The next crisis may not come from challenges to legitimate slates of electors.
  — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 5 Feb. 2022
• Would any legitimate fraudster or mule do that and then report on themselves?
  — CBS News, 23 Oct. 2022
• The first two are both two-time league MVPs, legitimate homegrown greats of the game.
  — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 July 2022
• At the moment, the pressing issue is how the Padres propose to jump from non-factor to legitimate contender.
  — Dennis Lin, sandiegouniontribune.com, 3 Dec. 2017
• The #MeToo movement helped a lot to legitimate female voices.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 28 May 2022
• The specific roles may vary based on the type of fraud being perpetrated, but the parallels to legitimate business are clear.
  — Mike Tuchen, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2023
• Cy Young Award winner gives Rangers legitimate ace to front the rotation.
  — Dallas News, 6 Dec. 2022
• But as polished as this new package looks, the visual overhaul comes with three issues, which range from nitpicks to legitimate concerns.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 5 June 2020
• There is no guarantee that a transaction is secure, let alone legitimate.
  — Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022
• Colorado residents who have complained for years about health effects said the study’s findings legitimate their concerns.
  — Bruce Finley, The Denver Post, 17 Oct. 2019
• The ideologies and organization of the public schools are legitimated by the promise that America takes care of the poor and allows them to do better.
  — Titus Techera, National Review, 26 June 2019
• If the lockdown orders are lifted, and this transpires, Xi will no longer be able to legitimate his rule as superior to the decadence of the West.
  — Bobby Miller, National Review, 2 Dec. 2022
• Which comes first, the desire to legitimate euthanasia or the nullifying of a distinction between killing and allowing to die?
  — Daniel Callahan, Commonweal, 2 June 2000
• The Tigers impressive week to them from on the bubble of even making the tournament to legitimate contention for a No. 2 seed.
  — Brody Miller, NOLA.com, 27 May 2018
• But could legitimate voices of dissent be stifled by a judicial culture of consensus?
  — Bob Egelko, SFChronicle.com, 7 Sep. 2020
• Now more than ever, the brand will lead its own rhythm, legitimating the value of time and connecting with people globally by getting closer to them in their own space and lives.
  — Eliza Huber, refinery29.com, 28 Apr. 2020
• In a country where even doctors and lawyers often make little money, a professional baseball contract offers one of the few gateways to legitimate wealth.
  — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 July 2021
• In other words, the U.N. was not intended to end power politics, but to legitimate it.
  — Daniel Bessner, The New Republic, 21 Oct. 2020
• Quarterback Trevor Lawrence definitely is no joke, giving these fans legitimate hope for the long term.
  — Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2023
• While fewer and farther between, legitimate absentee fraud is also reflected in the database.
  — USA Today, 20 Oct. 2020
• Over the course of their epic careers, the rivals legitimated the use of cosmetics for respectable women, along the way perfecting such vanity-table staples as the lipstick tube and the mascara wand.
  — Amy Fine Collins, HWD, 2 Mar. 2017
• Thus, defining something as hate speech doesn’t impact legitimate First Amendment rights.
  — Micha Danzig, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Nov. 2021
• Often, fears surrounding deodorant are tied to legitimate fears of getting a scary diagnosis.
  — Katie Berohn, Good Housekeeping, 16 Aug. 2021
• Now, as the technology expands from a fringe hacker toy to legitimate business applications, opportunists have flooded the field.
  — Erin Griffith, WIRED, 25 May 2018
• To legitimate the control machine in Palestine, the British raked their empire again, this time for ways of securing legal impunity.
  — The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2022
• Are any of these accusations legitimate or do some not have a fundamental understanding of how voting and voting rights in America work?
  — Siraj Hashmi, Washington Examiner, 16 Oct. 2020
• What actually matters is covering the facts on the ground, calling out frivolous challenges to legitimate ballots, and resisting the temptation to spin.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 3 Nov. 2020
• Both groups deployed the same exploit kit on websites that either belonged to legitimate organizations and were hacked or were set up for the express purpose of serving attack code on unsuspecting visitors.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 24 Mar. 2022
• Trump’s original shortlists came in response to legitimate conservative fears about his views towards the judiciary.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 9 Sep. 2020

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024