How to Use litmus test in a Sentence

litmus test

noun

• The party is using attitudes about gun control as a litmus test for political candidates.
• Think of them as more of a Rorschach test than a litmus test.
  — Michael Middlehurst-Schwartz, USA TODAY, 2 Apr. 2021
• Or a litmus test in terms of finding the right fit there?
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 3 May 2022
• The age of 81 alone is not the litmus test of one’s ability to serve.
  — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 3 Aug. 2024
• The litmus test: was the bathroom too small to close the door behind her?
  — Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 16 Sep. 2022
• For decades, ethanol has been a true litmus test in the Hawkeye State.
  — Miranda Green, The New Republic, 10 Feb. 2020
• The matchup with the Vikings will be a good litmus test to see how much the Bengals have improved.
  — Kelsey Conway, The Enquirer, 11 Sep. 2021
• The true litmus test was to see what Forrie J. Smith thinks.
  — Amanda Garrity, Good Housekeeping, 30 Aug. 2019
• To me, the litmus test and one of the ways that really shows up for Brady is on third-and-eight.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Nov. 2020
• Some view chicken as a litmus test for a kitchen’s skill.
  — Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com, 15 Aug. 2019
• As a kid, the ranking was always the litmus test of success.
  — Nick Williams, Billboard, 14 Jan. 2020
• The resolution process of the housing lender will prove to be a litmus test for the law.
  — Sangeeta Tanwar, Quartz India, 28 Nov. 2019
• The Seagoville game appeared to a key litmus test Pinkston passed.
  — Rick Kretzschmar, Dallas News, 15 Sep. 2022
• How the game goes could be a litmus test for both franchises.
  — Shayna Rubin, The Mercury News, 27 Jan. 2024
• How will that play out in an era when school choice has become a GOP litmus test?
  — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Mar. 2023
• Rivers' free agency should be a telling litmus test on both fronts.
  — Ben Golliver, courant.com, 25 June 2019
• But the real litmus test is what a host is like behind closed doors.
  — Boris Fishman, Travel + Leisure, 21 Feb. 2022
• If not, what will be the progressive litmus test in 2022?
  — James Pindell, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Dec. 2021
• The jump in gas prices could prove to be a litmus test for Metro and mass transit in general.
  — Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2022
• And the issue of slavery reparations has emerged as a litmus test for the field.
  — John Fritze, USA TODAY, 20 July 2019
• But who knows what Trump whim will be the next litmus test for remaining in his good graces?
  — Dean Obeidallah, CNN, 10 Oct. 2021
• There is no Trump litmus test for Supreme Court appointees.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 29 Sep. 2020
• And it’s why many see the trial as a litmus test: If this video won’t make a difference, what would?
  — Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2021
• What the state decides to do with South African Airways could be a litmus test for that resolve.
  — Antony Sguazzin, Bloomberg.com, 26 May 2020
• As long as the state is first, it's seen as the first serious litmus test of a candidate.
  — Clare Ulmer, USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2020
• Have the candidates in Ohio been made to submit to a kind of Trump-2020-election-claims litmus test?
  — The New Yorker, 3 May 2022
• This year’s event, scheduled for Wednesday night, now looms as a litmus test, for both the museum and the city.
  — Adrian Walker, BostonGlobe.com, 16 June 2019
• In addition, Squid Game, given its dark and adult themes, may not be the best litmus test.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 11 Oct. 2021
• The stock market’s bumpy start to 2022 provides a useful litmus test.
  — Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic, 30 Jan. 2022
• The letter was also a litmus test for what was acceptable to say publicly in a world where Donald Trump was president.
  — Rebecca Jennings, Vox, 26 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024