How to Use litmus in a Sentence

litmus

noun

• Has the litmus for what’s a good song changed much over time? Dylan.
  — Gary Graff, cleveland, 3 Aug. 2021
• The litmus test that separates the natives from the outsiders or tourists is the way the street names are pronounced.
  — Monique Judge, The Root, 29 June 2017
• Some daters may feel lost without such clear litmus tests.
  — Washington Post, 20 July 2021
• In the end, Perez walked back his walk-back, announcing there was no litmus test after all.
  — Christine Emba, Twin Cities, 7 May 2017
• An early clash with Florida will be a good litmus test for this team.
  — Matt Murschel, OrlandoSentinel.com, 20 Aug. 2017
• Cincinnati is more of a litmus for NFL attendance than most places.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 3 Oct. 2017
• This week’s solar eclipse in the U.S. was a litmus test for grid operators.
  — Tim Loh, Bloomberg.com, 24 Aug. 2017
• For the moment, Zverev, 24, has yet to reach the top spot and yet to win one of the four major titles that remain tennis’ litmus tests of greatness.
  — Christopher Clarey, New York Times, 21 Nov. 2021
• In other matchups over the course of the rivalry with the Patriots, the Ravens passed litmus tests with flying colors.
  — Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 16 Nov. 2020
• Ideological litmus tests make no sense when the future of the nation is on the line.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 23 Dec. 2021
• All that may signal that even for Republicans, now past the primaries, those stances aren't the same litmus tests.
  — Anthony Salvanto, Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus, CBS News, 14 Sep. 2022
• But in this year’s Central Division, the litmus tests may not come every night.
  — Matthew Defranks, Dallas News, 3 Feb. 2021
• In 1988, the litmus tests included abstinence and prayer in school.
  — M.l. Elrick, Detroit Free Press, 24 Apr. 2022
• New York’s Tere O’Connor is a litmus-test kind of choreographer.
  — SFChronicle.com, 5 Nov. 2019
• As for those of you who look no further than candidate mailers, NextDoor rants or red vs. blue litmus tests: Sit this one out.
  — Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 20 Apr. 2021
• Lawyers for both sides have attempted to suss out potential bias with their own litmus tests.
  — Tessa Stuart, Rolling Stone, 26 Oct. 2021
• Those are the factors to keep one’s eyes on, not the self-interested grousing of CEOs and right-wing partisan litmus tests.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2021
• The past week has brought a career-defining litmus test for secretaries of state in capitals across the country.
  — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 6 July 2017
• In more seriousness, the home opener should give the Steelers an early litmus test against what was one of the league's best defenses last year.
  — cleveland.com, 5 July 2017
• Therefore, the Cardinals only had two litmus tests for players who on the fringe of its roster cuts to prove themselves to remain.
  — Dana Scott, The Arizona Republic, 30 Aug. 2021
• Such a belief cannot be, and frankly has never been, the litmus test for policy in the Republican Party.
  — Brian Beutler, New Republic, 14 July 2017
• Many polls suggest that the referendum could be seen as a litmus test for the Renzi government — a big risk for the prime minister.
  — Elisabetta Povoledo, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2016
• Not that long ago, prominent Democrats had to overcome these kinds of religious litmus tests themselves.
  — Dave Boucher, Detroit Free Press, 10 Aug. 2021
• Back-to-back weekend series against the Red Sox and Yankees have provided the Cubs with an early-season litmus test, the kind that usually doesn't matter in the long run.
  — Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 6 May 2017
• Gone are the days of 90-plus votes in favor of a nominee, replaced by partisan votes and clear political litmus tests.
  — Jeff Zeleny, Kevin Liptak and Phil Mattingly, CNN, 4 Feb. 2022
• The car isn’t just a make-or-break vehicle for Tesla but a litmus test for whether the electric-vehicle market can go mainstream at more than niche sales levels.
  — Bengt Halvorson, Car and Driver, 4 July 2017
• Instead of a litmus test on Jones' zeal, the trial—by design—contained little of the bombast the radio host is known for by his millions of online followers.
  — Ryan Katz, Esquire, 28 Apr. 2017
• His candidacy wasn't about passing litmus tests, but about changing the broad direction of the party.
  — Noah Millman, The Week, 19 Nov. 2021
• Such litmus tests politicize the Court, and its legitimacy rests on its ability to rise above the kind of raw politics Trump reveled in.
  — Sue Halpern, The New York Review of Books, 25 May 2022
• Even at the urinals, there is a litmus paper test for sailors to check whether they are hydrated enough, while the gym where the crew have two sessions a day have all the equipment of any modern day, state of the art facility.
  — Matt Majendie, CNN, 26 May 2017

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