How to Use linchpin in a Sentence

linchpin

noun

• This witness is the linchpin of the defense's case.
• Players come and go, sometimes during camp, and even linchpins like Pulisic can be absent for months.
  — Brian Straus, SI.com, 28 May 2018
• Bourdain quickly became one of the principal faces of the network and one of the linchpins of the prime time schedule.
  — Brian Stelter, CNN, 8 June 2018
• But the linchpin may be the $200 million hotel, the county’s tallest building.
  — Meredith Cohn, baltimoresun.com, 3 June 2018
• Judge Liam Brennan, calling the confession the linchpin of the guilty verdict, set aside the verdict.
  — Clifford Ward, Naperville Sun, 25 May 2018
• Just how close were the Brewers to not breaking camp with Jesus Aguilar, who has become the team's linchpin on offense?
  — Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 May 2018
• To a first-time visitor, the village does not look like the contested linchpin of two dueling national destinies.
  — New York Times, 24 June 2018
• Larionov became the linchpin of the Russian Five, who created a masterpiece on ice.
  — Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 12 June 2018
• The sedan is the linchpin to the company’s efforts to bring more affordable electric vehicles to the masses and achieve profitability.
  — Bloomberg, Fortune, 5 June 2018
• Patterson and Pressler are linchpins of the faith, the duo that—in 1967—first contrived to move Southern Baptists hard right.
  — Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 21 June 2018
• Most of the people who carried the devices that exploded were probably field officers, the local linchpins for cells of fighters who make up the backbone of Hezbollah’s forces.
  — Ben Wedeman, CNN, 18 Sep. 2024
• There's no question that the linchpin of the house is blue.
  — Krissa Rossbund, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 May 2021
• Unlike the Volt, though, the Bolt is the linchpin to GM’s plans for the future.
  — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 26 Nov. 2018
• That's the linchpin of the state's plan, one that is largely unchanged since the spring.
  — Dave Boucher, Detroit Free Press, 2 Aug. 2021
• So, yeah, that’s the linchpin of the, of the plan for Northeast Ohio, a new healthcare center in Akron.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 18 Mar. 2022
• Chandler will always be the linchpin of L.A. noir to me.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2019
• And then the final linchpin around that was the VMware spin transaction.
  — Mark Maurer, WSJ, 7 Mar. 2022
• This is the linchpin of the whole series—who will be in charge once Logan kicks the bucket for good?
  — Carrie Wittmer, Harper's BAZAAR, 11 Aug. 2019
• The growing Latino vote was a — maybe the — linchpin of this thinking.
  — Eric Garcia, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2021
• In the second round against Colorado, Hintz may be a linchpin for the Stars’ success.
  — Matthew Defranks, Dallas News, 23 Aug. 2020
• On Ozark, Garner plays the emotional linchpin of the show.
  — Chloe Malle, Town & Country, 19 Jan. 2022
• Stephen Yuen [who voices the title character] was the linchpin of the show.
  — Washington Post, 1 May 2021
• But the Nuggets need Porter to be as solid as a linchpin to keep their bandwagon rolling.
  — Mark Kiszla, The Denver Post, 1 July 2019
• Behind the counter hung the linchpin of Uncle Sam’s business: guns.
  — USA TODAY, 5 Aug. 2021
• Because bees are a linchpin to the industry that feeds us.
  — National Geographic, 30 July 2019
• Looney was supposed to be the linchpin for the Golden State frontline in this series.
  — Andrew Sharp, SI.com, 7 June 2019
• This is why Bowser feels like a linchpin of the Ravens’ offseason.
  — Childs Walker, baltimoresun.com, 8 Mar. 2021
• The Dolphins may be rebuilding this year, but Wilkins is one of their linchpins of the future.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2019
• One of the linchpins of this relationship was weapons sales.
  — Sam Ellis, Vox, 17 Dec. 2018
• And a Duchenne muscular dystrophy treatment, the linchpin of the portfolio, failed to show any benefit in a large trial last month.
  — Elaine Chen, STAT, 26 July 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024