How to Use bona fides in a Sentence

bona fides

noun

• Roots bona fides, goosed with rock zeal and a chip on the shoulder.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 20 June 2022
• Fox seemed to shore up its Trumpian bona fides after that.
  — Jeremy Barr, Washington Post, 30 July 2022
• The Colts have proven their bona fides as legit AFC contenders.
  — Scott Horner, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Dec. 2021
• Fashion loves a first time, sure, but what made the show really one to watch were Blazy’s bona fides.
  — José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 16 Dec. 2022
• It’s the tenuity of manhood that drives men to seek ways to prove their masculine bona fides.
  — Parker Molloy, Rolling Stone, 25 Apr. 2022
• Not to say that the original version didn’t have its own fashion bona fides, of course.
  — José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 3 Feb. 2023
• Even then, if your roots are in the Greater Portland area, folks living in the vast part of the state that’s north of there might still question your bona fides.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2022
• In fact, the more Kingston leans into his heel bona fides, the more some fans will embrace an edgier Eddie.
  — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 14 Nov. 2021
• Both Murkowski and Tshibaka boast of their Alaska bona fides.
  — Manu Raju and Alex Rogers, CNN, 4 Oct. 2021
• The alleged mistreatment of employees lost the Wing the feminist bona fides that had built up the brand.
  — Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 1 Sep. 2022
• God-knows-how-long of their ‘family values’ bona fides.
  — Kara Baskin, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Jan. 2022
• Trump supporters cheered the appointment, and not just because of Durham's bona fides.
  — Eric Tucker, ajc, 19 Oct. 2022
• Even celebrities seeking to burnish their eco-friendly bona fides were smitten with the car.
  — Tim De Chant, Wired, 28 July 2021
• The deal likely means Simmons will end his year-long holdout and play for the Nets soon, giving them defensive bona fides.
  — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Feb. 2022
• The lunch went swimmingly nonetheless, in large part because Nivola had the Italian bona fides Chase prizes.
  — Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 2 Sep. 2021
• Advertisement Even with his bona fides as a tastemaker, Williams has big shoes to fill in Abloh’s absence.
  — Anne Branigin, Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2023
• More than her cringiest assertions of woke bona fides, more than even her treatment of Steve, this is the thing that’s hardest to swallow.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 4 Feb. 2022
• For decades, rappers have bragged about their bona fides while denouncing rivals as phonies.
  — New York Times, 14 Mar. 2022
• His tough talk -- the autocrat's calling card -- is also an emblem of his populist man-of-the-people bona fides.
  — Frida Ghitis, CNN, 9 Feb. 2022
• Brands are no doubt also aware that such coolers’ survivalist bona fides are a big part of their appeal.
  — Sal Vaglica, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2022
• To convince the victim of his bona fides, the scammer told the victim to go online and find the main phone number on the Clark County Sheriff’s Office website.
  — The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 18 Jan. 2023
• Nobody cares here about the mincing Charles’ Glasgow-hugging climate bona fides.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 18 Nov. 2021
• Rudy Zamora-Herrera isn’t as bashful about his birria bona fides.
  — Washington Post, 16 Nov. 2021
• Zac Brown Band long ago proved their badass bona fides at Summerfest, as one of the most frequent amphitheater headliners over the past decade.
  — Piet Levy, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Sep. 2021
• But the modest scale and local bona fides haven’t stopped locals like George Havranek from talking as though a supertall was coming to Throgs Neck.
  — Valeria Ricciulli, Curbed, 9 Aug. 2021
• This series has the fashion bona fides of its predecessor.
  — Elizabeth Loga, Glamour, 9 July 2021
• There are plenty of high-profile politicians who have struck up unlikely friendships and not lost their party’s bona fides in the process.
  — Daniel Strauss, The New Republic, 17 Aug. 2022
• Like Vance, Oz has faced criticism from his rivals about a lack of conservative bona fides.
  — Mark Murray, NBC News, 6 May 2022
• Each is running as a progressive, though their liberal bona fides vary.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 4 July 2022
• Once all of those contractual bona fides are in place, Restoration breaks ground on their remaster.
  — Luke Winkie, Wired, 19 Oct. 2021

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