credit

credit
01. He buys everything on [credit]; he never pays cash for anything.
02. We have to give her a lot of [credit] for our success.
03. My wife can't get [credit] from the bank because she is self-employed and, as such, is considered too much of a risk.
04. My bank has [credited] my account with the amount that was mistakenly charged to us without reason.
05. Mikhail Gorbachev is [credited] with helping to bring about the end of communism in Europe.
06. Isabel did all the work, but her boss took all the [credit] for the project.
07. Her [credit] rating went down because she didn't make her monthly payments on her new car.
08. Arnold Glasgow once said that a good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the [credit].
09. There is a Yiddish proverb that notes that if the pupil is smart, the teacher gets the [credit].
10. The Roman gourmet Apicius is [credited] with writing one of the first cookbooks.
11. Kobo Daishi is [credited] with inventing kana, the phonetic writing system of Japan.
12. We will [credit] your account for the amount you paid for the computer you returned to us.
13. In January of 1976, Britain applied for [credit] of almost 1 billion pounds from the International Monetary Fund.
14. In life, you can't take all the [credit] when things are going well, so you shouldn't have to take all the blame when they go badly.
15. An industrialist by the name of Oskar Schindler is [credited] with saving the lives of about 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust.
16. The nation of Botswana has been ranked as the best [credit] risk in Africa.
17. Harry Truman once suggested that it is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the [credit].
18. The Sumerians of Mesopotamia are [credited] with the invention of writing in the 4th millennium B.C.
19. People usually take [credit] for actions which produce favorable outcomes, but blame the situation when their actions are questionable or lead to failure.
20. The President [credits] his bodyguard for saving his life, after the man jumped in front of a person who had pulled out a gun.
21. [Creditors] who invested in the troubled company will receive only pennies on each dollar they are owed.
22. The bank has [credited] my account with the $20 they mistakenly charged me for a bad check that was actually from someone else's account.
23. We are [crediting] your credit card account with the value of your refund.
24. Police are [crediting] the quick action of a local man with saving the lives of three young children trapped in a burning house.

Grammatical examples in English. 2013.

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