How to Use creditable in a Sentence

creditable

adjective
Definition of creditablenext
Synonyms for creditablenext
  • Maoyan users gave the film a very creditable 8.6 out of 10 rating.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 15 Mar. 2022
  • If war is hell, there’s a creditable case Bakhmut is its ninth circle.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Carey and her crew deserve credit for taking it on and doing a creditable job of it.
    — Joanne Engelhardt, The Mercury News, 6 Mar. 2017
  • This amounts to about 60% of the overall funding if the current estimate is creditable.
    — Stephen Wade, chicagotribune.com, 22 Dec. 2021
  • For there to be an admirable winner, there must also be creditable losers.
    — Vlad Savov, The Verge, 26 June 2018
  • According to Burkett, there are no other creditable threats known against the schools at this time.
    — William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al, 2 Nov. 2022
  • For very creditable reasons, doubling the Pell Grant will be attractive to the public and Congress.
    — Michael Poliakoff, Forbes, 30 Aug. 2021
  • McIlroy had a creditable score of 71 in the second round, including almost making a hole-in-one at No.
    — Tom Yantz, courant.com, 16 June 2017
  • Only over the very long term—many decades, if not longer—does gold do a creditable job as an inflation hedge, according to a study of gold over the past 2,000 years by Mr. Erb and Prof.
    — Mark Hulbert, WSJ, 5 Mar. 2017
  • Alvarez had a very creditable start (six hits, four runs), as the Spartans tried to win a first state title in their first final appearance.
    — Tom Yantz, courant.com, 9 June 2017
  • The implication is that their very creditable hard work and achievement in one field ought to confer extra weight to their views in other fields.
    — Eric Zorn, chicagotribune.com, 14 Dec. 2020
  • Current events in the moon palace and related happenings on Earth will move much of the action to Hawaii, where the scenery is lush, the air balmy and the film production tax credits creditable.
    — Robert Lloyd, latimes.com, 28 Sep. 2017
  • The more followers a user has can also make nonsense seem creditable.
    — Peter Suciu, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2021
  • The game seemed to be petering out into, for Athletic, a creditable stalemate.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 19 May 2020
  • Any quibbles about accent are beside the point, especially since her voice work is more than creditable enough.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Sep. 2022
  • Ty alerted the lifeguard, who after questioning him and finding his story to be creditable, reacted and saved the young man’s life.
    — Naperville Sun, 6 July 2018
  • Fortunately, there’s an 85°C bakery in the Diamond Jamboree mall with two kinds of very creditable egg tarts.
    — Daily Pilot, 6 Sep. 2019
  • Elected to the Senate in 1992, Mrs. Feinstein has produced a creditable career.
    — Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 19 Sep. 2018
  • The calls are believed not to be creditable, yet the investigation continues.
    — cleveland, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Still, Milk’s photographic legacy is creditable, and, in light of his murder, haunting.
    — Arthur Lubow, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2019
  • That’s creditable given the ongoing disruption in Hong Kong.
    — Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2019
  • Writer-director Rian Johnson steps into the franchise fray and does a creditable, if uninspired, job.
    — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Dec. 2017
  • Fernandes, who is United’s most creative player and led them last season to a creditable second-place finish, has not been at his best, and was recently benched.
    — Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2022
  • Yet the performances were never less than creditable, and the focussed energy of the playing overrode any worries about precision.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 16 May 2022
  • Mayfield was a play-action success Sunday, and this is just one of several creditable examples.
    — Ellis L. Williams, cleveland, 4 Oct. 2020
  • Second-quarter pretax profit rose a creditable 4% from a year earlier to $6.2 billion.
    — Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2019
  • And Jeff Wall, who has done a creditable job of making Trump seem normal, is reduced to little more than an ambulance chaser in a powder-blue suit—someone whose lying client is making a mockery of the court.
    — Dahlia Lithwick, Slate Magazine, 5 June 2017
  • Any increase above that baseline is additional and creditable.
    — Lisa Song, Propublica, and James Temple, ProPublica, 12 May 2021
  • Montgomery, who surprisingly made the team as its fifth starter out of spring training, has had a creditable rookie season and pitched well Tuesday night, working six innings while allowing six hits and one run.
    — Wallace Matthews, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2017
  • In addition, the board noted that Germany -- as the third largest music market in the world -- will continue to need a creditable music award to honor the work of musicians across all genres and generations.
    — Wolfgang Spahr, Billboard, 25 Apr. 2018

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