How to Use at face value in a Sentence

at face value

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  • The price depends on the seats, but they are sold at face value.
    Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Robert Plant and Alison Krauss want to give fans, not scalpers, the best chance to buy tickets at face value.
    Dave Brooks, Billboard, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Though cautious to take things at face value, You fans couldn't hide their shock at every glimpse.
    Jacqueline Saguin, Good Housekeeping, 18 Feb. 2023
  • Shroff urged jurors not to take his remarks at face value.
    Jennifer Peltz, ajc, 8 Feb. 2023
  • Your best bet to get seats to one of the 24 shows at face value is going through Ticketmaster.
    John Lonsdale, Rolling Stone, 18 Aug. 2023
  • But a ground invasion might not even happen if the IDF is to be taken at face value.
    Mike Brest, Washington Examiner, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Research, talk to your peers, and don’t take trending headlines at face value.
    Art Zeile, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2023
  • Taken only at face value, the contract might seem like the big issue.
    The Indianapolis Star, 25 July 2023
  • No one should have taken their promises at face value to begin with.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2023
  • The business case for inclusion, at face value, can seem like a harder sell.
    Ruth Umoh, Fortune, 15 Nov. 2023
  • The research paper from three weeks ago seemed to take Shor’s algorithm at face value.
    Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 26 Jan. 2023
  • While scalpers try to turn a profit on the musical event of the summer, three Swifties are working to get tickets to fans at face value.
    Lane Florsheim, WSJ, 8 June 2023
  • Taken at face value, the story of Stellar Blade is fine, if tedious.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 24 Apr. 2024
  • But if the new teaser for The Morning Show’s season 3 teaser can be taken at face value, there’s even more at stake.
    Jp Mangalindan, Peoplemag, 27 July 2023
  • Yet as our time testing it in and around Austin, Tex., showed, that output figure shouldn’t be taken at face value.
    Michael Van Runkle, Robb Report, 29 Sep. 2024
  • But the data can be difficult to take at face value, city and state officials say.
    Jaime Moore-Carrillo, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 July 2024
  • Some physicists and philosophers have taken the statement at face value.
    Paul M. Sutter, Discover Magazine, 7 July 2023
  • Some tickets are distributed to NFL teams, or sold at face value to players, coaches and others tied to the sport.
    Faris Tanyos, CBS News, 11 Feb. 2024
  • Instead, it’s taken at face value and becomes a runaway hit.
    Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2024
  • Read more Keep scrolling Buying Taylor Swift tickets at face value?
    Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 5 Aug. 2024
  • Robinson, by not taking the words of Scripture at face value, makes her case for God’s enduring covenant with creation.
    Joan Taylor, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Taken at face value, that would figure to create an immense amount of pressure.
    Brian Haenchen, The Indianapolis Star, 24 Mar. 2023
  • For the true cynic, there’s nothing like convincing people to take your nonsense at face value.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 19 Oct. 2023
  • If Dunleavy and Kerr are to be taken at face value, the organization seems to have a preference as to who steps into that role.
    Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Suh creates long stretches of dialogue where the audience cannot take what is being said at face value.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 8 May 2024
  • Many accepted her story at face value, duped by phony medals and altered records.
    Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Mar. 2023
  • But that doesn’t mean that the news media is obligated to accept such assertions at face value.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2023
  • While the rain totals aren’t concerning at face value, the storm is following a winter of heavy rains that have continued to wreak havoc across the region.
    Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The opt-out is fairly simple at face value for passengers on domestic flights.
    Ryan Erik King / Jalopnik, Quartz, 22 July 2024
  • But take nothing at face value from these heavily edited videos.
    Nathan Hodge, CNN, 5 Aug. 2024

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