Example sentences for: credulity

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

  • But the largest example of his credulity in this book involves the part of Reagan's presidency in which he takes the greatest interest: the Cold War.

  • Only in the annotation does Gibbon add, "The world has laughed at the credulity of Marcus; but Madam Dacier assures us (and we may credit a lady) that the husband will always be deceived, if the wife condescends to dissemble."

  • Both the cynicism and the credulity reflect ignorance about the world beyond the Beltway.

  • But as the debate goes on, Gore repeatedly strains credulity.

  • The only criticism: Hiaasen "walks a fine line between satire and outrage, as well as another between the conventions of the thriller and the conventions of slapstick, and … toward the end matters get so frenetic that credulity is strained well past the snapping point" (Jonathan Yardley, the Washington Post ). (Read an interview with Hiaasen.)


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