How to Use touchstone in a Sentence

touchstone

noun

• Good service is one touchstone of a first-class restaurant.
• The trauma of the famine is a touchstone, but so is the green-joy part.
  — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2023
• Through the Trump years, those words were my touchstone.
  — Amy Klobuchar, Star Tribune, 22 Apr. 2021
• Was that a touchstone for you at all, in life or for this show?
  — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 16 Aug. 2022
• That’s that touchstone to your heart and the thing that gets you out of the house and that drives you forward.
  — Gregory Ellwood, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2021
• Was that show a touchstone for you at all in life or for this show?
  — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 17 Aug. 2022
• These are the favorites that remain a touchstone in the face of Peak TV bloat.
  — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 19 Mar. 2020
• This record [Leak 04-13 (Bait Ones)] was the touchstone for my album.
  — Melissa Giannini, ELLE, 31 May 2023
• The series streams on Disney+ and has become a Gen Z touchstone.
  — Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Jan. 2023
• High Fidelity, based on the novel of the same name, is a touchstone.
  — Milan Polk, Men's Health, 11 Jan. 2023
• The plight of the prisoners is an emotional touchstone across the West Bank and Gaza.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 24 Nov. 2023
• For Field, Mahler’s Fifth has always been a touchstone.
  — Josh Rottenbergstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2022
• The tape proved to be a key touchstone in the evolution of Milwaukee’s sound.
  — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 21 Aug. 2023
• That song in that film was using it as a touchstone for that age of people who all knew a song in a bar.
  — Gary Graff, cleveland, 3 Aug. 2021
• The life and art of Aretha Franklin remain a cultural touchstone.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2022
• The references to the touchstones of the work of her late boss felt timely in this collection.
  — Laure Guilbault, Vogue, 11 Sep. 2023
• But that 97 mph fastball plunking Acuna Jr.'s hip became the touchstone of the game and the talk of the Braves' 9-5 comeback win.
  — Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 6 Oct. 2020
• The reference is to the document adopted in May 1948 as the state was proclaimed – long a touchstone for the court.
  — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Aug. 2023
• In the 50 years since it was first published, the book has become a cultural touchstone.
  — Sam Reed, Glamour, 12 Jan. 2023
• Still, World of Noise is a touchstone record for the band and one that Alexakis was happy to revisit.
  — Niko Stratis, SPIN, 14 June 2022
• The right to worship has become a fierce touchstone in the debate over state and local rules to stem the spread of the coronavirus.
  — Lisa Mascaro, Star Tribune, 18 Sep. 2020
• Your principles will be your touchstone for your choices in the new year.
  — Kathy Miller Perkins, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2022
• The Thing was a touchstone in early conversations about the scene.
  — Katie Rife, Vulture, 23 May 2022
• Muhl is a touchstone, the first Croat to start for a team as successful and visible as UConn.
  — New York Times, 22 Mar. 2021
• The event that made Car and Driver a cultural touchstone.
  — John Pearley Huffman, Car and Driver, 22 Oct. 2021
• In place of some of the progressive touchstones was something a lot more basic.
  — Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 22 Aug. 2024
• Since its release, Pi has become a touchstone for the math obsessed.
  — WIRED, 14 Mar. 2023
• The song was, in the context of East German pop music, a huge hit, and is now a nostalgic touchstone.
  — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2021
• So what comes with you in that journey, what cultural traditions, what touchstones come with you, is something that you get tied to.
  — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2024
• In Year 1? The word that has been the touchstone for this organization, ever since Josh Harris bought the team 17 months ago, was front and center again, both on and off the field this week: alignment.
  — David Aldridge, The Athletic, 22 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Jan 2025