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.

  • USAT 's AFL-CIO coverage lends plenty of credence to the idea that the organization is genuinely undecided about Gore vs.

  • 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.

  • The NYT off-lead, assessing the damage in Baghdad, makes the point that--despite the widely reported Iraqi claims of thousands of casualties--Western assessments of few civilian casualties gain credence because, contrary to past Iraqi government practice, foreign journalists have not been invited to view bombed homes.

  • According to the Chronicle of Higher Education , Jordan's collaborator will be legal scholar Annette Gordon-Reed, an untenured professor at New York University's law school, who swept to prominence last year with the publication of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy . Hailed as the definitive account of Jefferson's long-rumored love affair with the slave Sally Hemings, Gordon-Reed's book argues that historians should give credence to the story of Jefferson's mistress and their six children.


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