do credit to
Example Sentences
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“Its beauty of design and execution would do credit to any part of the world,” the newspaper declared.
From New York Times • Dec. 3, 2018
Dennett's recycling credentials would do credit to the deepest of Greens.
From The Guardian • May 15, 2013
Along the way, Sullivan scatters suggestive pieces of evidence with a skill that would do credit to Agatha Christie.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the right, Shirley engages in fictive voyages that would do credit to Sinbad, confronts pirates, finds buried treasure and sets sail for shore�all in the glowing terms of a child's interior vision.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yes, our heroine—if we have not called attention to that fact before—and with many first-class "heroinical" qualities, which would do credit to the high-born damsels of our old-fashioned novels.
From Mattie:?A Stray (Vol 2 of 3) by Robinson, Frederick William
