How to Use yardstick in a Sentence
yardstick
noun
- Some feel that test scores aren't an adequate yardstick for judging a student's ability.
- Ratings are the yardstick by which TV shows are evaluated by networks.
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Good Grief, grab a yardstick and knock the knife from her hand.
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Rachel Pannett,
Washington Post,
29 Nov. 2023
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The yardstick will also help to keep the cuts straight.
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Mariah Thomas,
Good Housekeeping,
4 Aug. 2023
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First, shove a yardstick beneath the front of your front tires.
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Katherine Keeler,
Car and Driver,
21 Mar. 2023
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The shape of the memory becomes the brain’s yardstick of time.
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Popular Science,
30 May 2020
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By this yardstick, the Safer is one of the biggest ever built.
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The New Yorker,
4 Oct. 2021
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And cost per click is not the yardstick that all brands should be using.
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Kiri Masters,
Forbes,
6 May 2022
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Here's how to make it: Glue plastic party cups to the end of a yardstick.
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Nicole Harris,
Parents,
22 May 2024
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Still, any two-seater must inevitably be held up to the sports-car yardstick.
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Patrick Bedard,
Car and Driver,
19 Aug. 2023
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The Zoom call is the yardstick by which fashion is measured now.
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Nancy MacDonell,
WSJ,
22 Sep. 2020
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And by that yardstick, housing still looked strong in June.
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Shawn Tully,
Fortune,
30 July 2022
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How to Do It: Use a ruler or yardstick to apply your painter's tape to the surface in a straight line.
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Hadley Mendelsohn,
House Beautiful,
20 Oct. 2020
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And that’s the yardstick in Formula 1, as the equipment varies so much.
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Rob Reed,
Forbes,
4 May 2021
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Nielsen is putting a new media yardstick out of arm’s reach, for the time being.
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Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
7 Sep. 2023
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Brent, the global price yardstick, is close to $80 a barrel.
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Benoit Faucon,
WSJ,
1 July 2018
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The best yardstick of sales is the number of background checks done when a gun is purchased.
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Joe Taschler,
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel,
6 Mar. 2018
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Staff beat him on the ears, hands, and back with a yardstick and hit him with a strap made from a conveyor belt.
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Annie Hylton,
Longreads,
10 Aug. 2020
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Use hot glue to attach the plastic party cups to one end of the yardstick (an adult's job).
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Rachelle Doorley,
Parents,
16 Aug. 2023
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And by that yardstick, both the United States and China face a world of constraints.
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Fareed Zakaria,
Foreign Affairs,
12 Dec. 2023
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The Trojans used to be the yardstick by which others were measured.
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San Diego Union-Tribune,
15 Sep. 2021
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Set up a model railroad track with the two rulers or yardsticks and your book or box.
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Svenja Lohner,
Scientific American,
12 Sep. 2019
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Delta Air Lines Inc. also recorded a sharp drop in the same yardstick.
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Bloomberg News,
NOLA.com,
21 Aug. 2017
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There has to be some kind of yardstick to measure yourself against.
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CBS News,
28 Sep. 2022
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Using the lane as a yardstick, Schwartz’s account put hers at 8 or 9 feet.
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Neal Rubin,
Detroit Free Press,
22 Feb. 2024
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Some were the size of sesame seeds, some were the size of pinky fingernails and some were almost as long as a yardstick.
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Meg Jones,
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel,
10 Oct. 2017
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Many, if not most, weighed more than 200 pounds, the iconic yardstick of Maine deer hunting.
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Gerry Bethge,
Outdoor Life,
18 Feb. 2020
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California, by some yardsticks, is among the states with the strictest gun laws in the country.
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New York Times,
29 July 2019
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The fifth brightest star in the night sky and about 25 light-years away, this blue star is a yardstick for judging stars’ apparent magnitude or brightness.
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Jamie Carter,
Forbes,
23 Sep. 2024
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Again, modest improvement was found in this poverty yardstick for the Golden State.
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Jonathan Lansner,
Orange County Register,
12 Sep. 2024
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