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.
  • 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 self-praise would be more credible if the long-range aircraft weren’t so urgently needed.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 5 Dec. 2022
  • The building was cleared several hours later, and no credible threats were found, police said.
    — Dallas News, 4 Dec. 2022
  • Your job is to increase the multiple of the stock and communicate that story in a credible way.
    — Megan Poinski, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
  • The statement said the bureau has no information to indicate the threat is credible.
    — Chris Boyette, CNN, 5 Nov. 2024
  • The schools closed Tuesday after receiving a threat, which officials said was not credible.
    — Molly Walsh | Mwalsh@cleveland.com, cleveland, 7 Dec. 2022
  • That Vladimir Putin would unleash nuclear weapons was never credible.
    — Josef Joffe, Time, 1 Dec. 2022
  • Both Mulligan and Kazan are credible but can’t quite shake the film’s attempt to emblematize the journalists as icons.
    — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Nov. 2022
  • The most credible and widely trumpeted sightings by Navy pilots now are explained as illusions.
    — WSJ, 2 Dec. 2022
  • The investigation revealed that the threat was not credible and that the display name used on the social media profile where the threat was made turned out to be a fictitious person.
    — Alec Johnson, Journal Sentinel, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Bonacci said police are working with federal and local authorities to determine if the threats are credible.
    — Emma Colton, Fox News, 4 Dec. 2022
  • Why allow Musk to appear even slightly more credible by lending our names, our brands, and our movements to a platform that makes the world more dangerous for real people?
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 5 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
  • It was determined the threat was not credible and the boy had no access to guns.
    — Andy Attina / Cleveland.com, cleveland, 12 Sep. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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, 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 commission in 2017 also found Murray’s claims to be credible and referred it to a judge.
    — Madeline Buckley, Chicago Tribune, 21 Mar. 2023
  • The first credible report of a Burmese python on Key Largo was made in the mid-2000s, but exactly how many of the snakes have made their home on the island in the past couple of decades isn’t clear.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 20 Mar. 2023

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