be a credit to

1. see under do credit to.

Example Sentences

It would also be a credit to Biden’s legacy, at little cost to him; he can make reforms now that would be binding on his successors, but his own presidency was not limited by them.

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“I sincerely hope I shall always be a credit to my race and to the motion picture industry,” McDaniel said accepting the award.

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Writing in the Times, movie critic Bosley Crowther proclaimed the film “so good, so substantial and powerful that it would be a credit to any director in the world.”

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For Maryland voters, the choice is easy; a victory for Mr. Brown would be a credit to the state.

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“Every ethnic group, they start out with these street gangs, but as they mature they turn into something far more legitimate and something that could be a credit to the community,” he told the Chicago Reader in 1995.

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