How to Use credible in a Sentence

credible

adjective
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  • She does a credible job of playing the famous singer.
  • We've received credible information about the group's location.
  • Few can claim to have as credible a chance to do just that.
    — Viv Walt, TIME, 20 Feb. 2025
  • Ensure the links are valid and lead to credible sources.
    — Bruce Weinstein, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Police said the threat has been proven not to be credible.
    — Ben Kesling, WSJ, 14 Feb. 2023
  • In one of the less credible turns, at day’s end Josephine sends Mimosa a used red dress and shoes as a present.
    — Caryn James, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Sep. 2023
  • The accusers had to be deemed credible, and they could not be paid or of evil repute.
    — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
  • The state says there is no evidence of that, but the judge found Miller’s claim credible.
    — Mike Cason | [email protected], al, 21 Sep. 2022
  • It was determined the threat was not credible and the boy had no access to guns.
    — Andy Attina / Cleveland.com, cleveland, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Police found the calls that warned of a student having a gun and a bomb were not credible.
    — Lilly Price, Baltimore Sun, 21 Nov. 2022
  • The judge did not disclose any details about the threats against him, or whether any of them were deemed credible.
    — Marshall Cohen, CNN, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Since the over has cashed in five of the past six head-to-head meetings, our argument feels even more credible.
    — Michael Arinze, Chicago Tribune, 30 Jan. 2023
  • That was one of the main concerns, just to sound credible and believable.
    — Esther Zuckerman, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Dec. 2022
  • After the shooting, Dwyer said that there were more than 30 school threats, about half of which were deemed credible.
    — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 14 Sep. 2022
  • One online threat to shoot up a polling place in Detroit was deemed not credible.
    — Detroit Free Press Staff, Detroit Free Press, 6 Nov. 2024
  • Ask those credible in their fields, across all fields, for advice.
    — Allbusiness, Forbes, 6 June 2022
  • None of the theories plumbed so far by news outlets seems credible enough to stand on its own.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 4 May 2023
  • At the core of NATO is the credible threat of a strong, united response to aggression.
    — M. E. Sarotte, Foreign Affairs, 10 July 2023
  • This in my mind is now the only credible prospect for the final leg up and is not exactly a long shot.
    — Clem Chambers, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Deputies concluded that the posts — which came from a student — did not present a credible threat, Doyle said.
    — Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Sep. 2022
  • None of the threats and the have been deemed credible, but did delay at least some voters from casting ballots.
    — Karissa Waddick, USA TODAY, 6 Nov. 2024
  • Last but not least, your brand promise must be credible.
    — Yec, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2023
  • The threat has since been deemed not credible, media reports said.
    — Taylor Pettaway, San Antonio Express-News, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Employees need to believe the data is credible, from its source all the way through the pipeline.
    — Sheila Callaham, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • And there are no credible news reports that Ukraine has received these weapons.
    — Molly Stellino, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2022
  • And, of course, the public reaction told us that the public did not think that those answers were credible or good.
    — Stephanie Petit, Peoplemag, 5 Apr. 2024
  • The world and time of the story, though so close, are looked back on as some barely credible dream too fantastic to endure.
    — Alan Hollinghurst, The New York Review of Books, 3 Aug. 2022
  • There is barely time to think about which bag to grab on your way out the door to safety and no real way to sort the credible threats from the bluster and theater.
    — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 31 Jan. 2025
  • The commission in 2017 also found Murray’s claims to be credible and referred it to a judge.
    — Madeline Buckley, Chicago Tribune, 21 Mar. 2023
  • This is a player who wasn’t signed, despite being a credible middle-six centre option, until mid-August of 2023.
    — Harman Dayal, The Athletic, 18 Feb. 2025

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