Example sentences for: credence

How can you use “credence” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The language of extraterrestrials merits only passing mention in Lunatic Lovers of Language, which deals with the development of artificial languages and with the search for language universals, characteristics that many (or all) languages share and that lend credence to the notion that there was only one original language from which the present stock has liverged.

  • The commission seems to be giving some credence to the claimed benefits of the merger, while hedging its bets on the competition issue by shoring up Office Max and seeding healthy retail conflict in scores of communities.

  • Though the books are not actually written by Wurman, his name graces the cover and the spine, lending credence to the idea that one need be neither much of a traveler nor much of a writer to be a travel writer.

  • I disagree strongly with columnist Jacob Weisberg's assertion in "Spin Out" that, by employing renowned attorney Robert Bennett to defend him against sexual harassment charges, President Clinton has lent credence to those charges.

  • Protocol says Babbitt should have invited me, because authors can lend photo ops extra credence.


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