How to Use criterion in a Sentence

criterion

noun
  • What were the criteria used to choose the winner?
  • The question is, does that criterion kick in if an American didn’t win?
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 May 2021
  • The ability to fit big items and heavy loads in the bed is a key performance criterion for many pickup buyers.
    Tribune News Service, cleveland, 24 Apr. 2021
  • Players who achieve playtime criterion with no Pro Bowls.
    cleveland, 23 Apr. 2021
  • The publicly available lists from the orders and dioceses vary in the criteria for inclusion.
    Laura Schulte, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Robert Herguth, Chicago Sun-Times, Journal Sentinel, 12 Dec. 2024
  • And convenience isn’t the only criterion for voting rules.
    Ilya Shapiro, Washington Examiner, 22 Apr. 2021
  • Piotroski first limited his universe to the bottom 20% of stocks according to their price-to-book ratio, and this is our first screening criterion.
    Derek Hageman, Forbes, 28 May 2021
  • Only 12% of survey respondents cited ease of use as a driving criterion when choosing a new technology.
    Amber Gray-Fenner, Forbes, 7 June 2021
  • Piotroski then scored each criterion with either a zero or a one, depending on a company’s underlying financials.
    Derek Hageman, Forbes, 28 May 2021
  • No changes were made to the criteria for how the rule is judged.
    Curtis Zupke, latimes.com, 22 Mar. 2018
  • And this is like, that's the one piece of criteria to stick to, is have fun.
    Lauren Huff, EW.com, 4 May 2023
  • And the criteria for the A-to-F letter grades are on the table for some tweaks.
    Cynthia Howell, arkansasonline.com, 26 Nov. 2023
  • But the criteria for the TV show is to find songs that a queen can perform.
    Stephen Daw, Billboard, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Yet there are no criteria for Coach of the Year that Brown does not meet.
    Marcus Hayes, Philly.com, 9 Apr. 2018
  • Winning games is not the main criteria used for the awards.
    Marvin Glassman, Jewish Journal, 24 May 2017
  • Rank the importance of each criteria on a scale of 1 (low) to 10 (high).
    Dr. Gleb Tsipursky, Forbes, 7 May 2023
  • What is the criteria that folks in Austin are looking to fill this job full-time?
    Charles Baggarly, Dallas News, 10 Mar. 2023
  • The Jayhawks have plenty of foes that fit the criteria.
    Jesse Newell, kansascity, 29 June 2018
  • The Browns were one of six teams that met the show's three criteria for selection.
    Tim Hackett, SI.com, 17 May 2018
  • To meet these criteria, a fish finder doesn’t have to do it all.
    Ric Burnley, Field & Stream, 4 May 2023
  • Both of these criteria are at the core of what ultimate is all about.
    Madeline Mitchell, Cincinnati.com, 12 July 2018
  • The criteria is simply that all the bands on the bill must have at least one female member.
    Karen Bliss, Billboard, 17 Mar. 2018
  • In China's case, only the first of these three criteria is met.
    Jeffrey Sachs For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 6 Aug. 2019
  • That allowed him to meet the polling criteria for entry.
    James Pindell, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Jan. 2020
  • Miles fit the criteria for one of them, and Nikki tapped her inner warrior to get him in.
    Amy Spencer, Good Housekeeping, 30 Mar. 2018
  • At the local halls of fame, the criteria are different.
    Jacob Gurvis, Sun Sentinel, 21 Apr. 2023
  • None of the alerts’ criteria require a person to have been missing for a certain amount of time.
    Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 1 Sep. 2023
  • In the event that a tiebreaker is necessary, the first criteria would be head-to-head race results.
    Andrew Turner, Daily Pilot, 18 July 2019
  • Officers said this didn’t meet the criteria for a threat.
    Zach Mentz, cleveland, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Rubio is the only Baldwin Park official whose experience matches those criteria.
    Anabel Sosa, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2024

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