Sample Sentences forcredence (auto-selected)
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They had probably sanded her down, and as she looked closer, she saw nicks in the hull, lending credence to her theory. (source)credence = a degree of believability
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But when it fell from the lips of Soso, one had good reason to lend it credence.† (source)
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How could people give the slightest credence to these rags?† (source)
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Consider the rumor that would have been given increased—credence.† (source)
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Adah says no one is giving it any credence; here, no one has ever doubted it.† (source)
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I could not give this woman credence because I, of all people, knew how crippling her psychological injuries were.† (source)
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the actions of the witness that lend credence to his trial testimony and the actions of the witness that lend credence to his recantation;† (source)
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We had given it little credence.† (source)
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He said nothing about this, possibly because to mention it would give it more credence than it was worth.† (source)
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Facts about Danny Hansford were beginning to circulate, and they lent credence to Williams's claim of self-defense.† (source)
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The intimacy of it, the comfort of other voices giving credence to their private myths, prepared them to meet their wives with less distance than they might otherwise bring home after fishing.† (source)
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No one understood the idea or put any more credence in it than in the powdered magnesium and such things.† (source)
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It is a look that gives equal credence to disaster and lecherous success.† (source)
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"How much credence do you give the claim of faerie betrayal?" asked Kadir.† (source)
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If we attempt to silence this talk, we only lend it credence.† (source)
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Three troublesome nonentities from the Officer Corps were executed to lend credence to the lie.† (source)
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