Wondering how to use Yardstick in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as standard or criterion.
Yardstick meaning
- A measuring rod thirty-six inches (one yard) long.
- A standard to which other measurements or comparisons are judged.
Using Yardstick
- The main meaning on this page is: A measuring rod thirty-six inches (one yard) long. | A standard to which other measurements or comparisons are judged.
- Useful related words include: standard, criterion, measure, touchstone.
- In the example corpus, yardstick often appears in combinations such as: yardstick for, the yardstick, as yardstick.
Context around Yardstick
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 9 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Yardstick
- In this selection, "yardstick" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, measurable, same, psychological, night and look stand out and add context to how "yardstick" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a good yardstick if you and a psychological yardstick while india. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "yardstick" sits close to words such as acolytes, acv and afolabi, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with yardstick
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
One key yardstick is governance. (5 words)
Her yardstick for career success, it sure isn’t money. (10 words)
Merkel wants security standards to be the yardstick, rather than singling out any one company. (15 words)
But it was only when Hall of Fame boxing MC Michael Buffer couldn’t get an introductory word in arseways after ‘Bray, Wicklow, Ireland’ that you began to realise this was to be another yardstick night in her ascent to a new kind of stardom. (45 words)
As it has turned out to be, the newspaper press has not by any measurable yardstick been a mass medium, but rather, it has served for most of its history as an instrumentalized predominantly urban based, elite to-elite medium. (40 words)
The recent arrest of some Nigerians in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates for fraud, particularly Ramoni Igbalode, known as Hushpuppi* should not be a yardstick in any way to judge and stereotype Nigerians who are excelling globally. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
As it has turned out to be, the newspaper press has not by any measurable yardstick been a mass medium, but rather, it has served for most of its history as an instrumentalized predominantly urban based, elite to-elite medium.
But the Publicity Secretary of the PDP in the state, Bemgba Iortyom, said the presidential election should not be used as yardstick for the governorship poll.
I go further and contend that what Mahatma Gandhi led in colonial India was a nonviolent rebellion and, by the same yardstick, Dr. Martin Luther King powered ahead for a second American emancipation of nonwhite Americans.
Money is often the yardstick that adults use to gauge how they measure up to peers, especially in America.
According to the judge, the card reader print out tendered by the appellants at the tribunal cannot be inserted into the constitution or electoral act which stipulates the yardstick for proving over voting.
Germany uses the yardstick of 50 new infections per 100,000 residents in the past seven days to determine if a country or region should go on its high-risk list.
Getting a big number of likes boosts their self-esteem and is a yardstick for their assumed achievement.
Her yardstick for career success, it sure isn’t money.
In a post on her Instastories, the actress was shocked on why social media posts have became the yardstick for determining who is wealthy and who is poor.
The recent arrest of some Nigerians in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates for fraud, particularly Ramoni Igbalode, known as Hushpuppi* should not be a yardstick in any way to judge and stereotype Nigerians who are excelling globally.
Through the narrative of Jinnah and Partition, he measures Pakistan, again, by a psychological yardstick, while India’s policies are assessed through its perceived interests.
A trip to Wolves will offer an important yardstick as to Tottenham's progress under Mourinho, especially their defence which has conceded 11 goals in his six games at the helm.
But it was only when Hall of Fame boxing MC Michael Buffer couldn’t get an introductory word in arseways after ‘Bray, Wicklow, Ireland’ that you began to realise this was to be another yardstick night in her ascent to a new kind of stardom.
Development will be our yardstick for choosing who goes to plot 1. We did it on double K, LPM, RB, MCS and ECL.
Fairly or not, the band has long been as a yardstick for suckitude in whimsical polls alongside things like lice, cockroaches, and… Donald Trump.
For one solid yardstick, look no further than the attempt by Ben Sasse to obtain unanimous consent for the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act in the Senate last night.
Just place two yardsticks on the counter on either side of the dough ball, and work the rolling pin over the dough until it reaches the height of the yardstick.
Merkel wants security standards to be the yardstick, rather than singling out any one company.
One key yardstick is governance.
The Patriots are a good yardstick if you’re Jones and you want to assess the franchise under your stewardship going back a couple decades.
Common combinations with yardstick
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- yardstick for 9×
- the yardstick 9×
- as yardstick 5×
- yardstick of 3×
- yardstick in 2×
- good yardstick 2×
- yardstick to 2×