How to Use yardstick in a Sentence

yardstick

noun

• Some feel that test scores aren't an adequate yardstick for judging a student's ability.
• Ratings are the yardstick by which TV shows are evaluated by networks.
• Good Grief, grab a yardstick and knock the knife from her hand.
  — Rachel Pannett, Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2023
• The yardstick will also help to keep the cuts straight.
  — Mariah Thomas, Good Housekeeping, 4 Aug. 2023
• First, shove a yardstick beneath the front of your front tires.
  — Katherine Keeler, Car and Driver, 21 Mar. 2023
• The shape of the memory becomes the brain’s yardstick of time.
  — Popular Science, 30 May 2020
• By this yardstick, the Safer is one of the biggest ever built.
  — The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2021
• And cost per click is not the yardstick that all brands should be using.
  — Kiri Masters, Forbes, 6 May 2022
• Here's how to make it: Glue plastic party cups to the end of a yardstick.
  — Nicole Harris, Parents, 22 May 2024
• Still, any two-seater must inevitably be held up to the sports-car yardstick.
  — Patrick Bedard, Car and Driver, 19 Aug. 2023
• The Zoom call is the yardstick by which fashion is measured now.
  — Nancy MacDonell, WSJ, 22 Sep. 2020
• And by that yardstick, housing still looked strong in June.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 30 July 2022
• How to Do It: Use a ruler or yardstick to apply your painter's tape to the surface in a straight line.
  — Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 20 Oct. 2020
• And that’s the yardstick in Formula 1, as the equipment varies so much.
  — Rob Reed, Forbes, 4 May 2021
• Nielsen is putting a new media yardstick out of arm’s reach, for the time being.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 7 Sep. 2023
• Brent, the global price yardstick, is close to $80 a barrel.
  — Benoit Faucon, WSJ, 1 July 2018
• The best yardstick of sales is the number of background checks done when a gun is purchased.
  — Joe Taschler, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 Mar. 2018
• Staff beat him on the ears, hands, and back with a yardstick and hit him with a strap made from a conveyor belt.
  — Annie Hylton, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
• Use hot glue to attach the plastic party cups to one end of the yardstick (an adult's job).
  — Rachelle Doorley, Parents, 16 Aug. 2023
• And by that yardstick, both the United States and China face a world of constraints.
  — Fareed Zakaria, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2023
• The Trojans used to be the yardstick by which others were measured.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Sep. 2021
• Set up a model railroad track with the two rulers or yardsticks and your book or box.
  — Svenja Lohner, Scientific American, 12 Sep. 2019
• Delta Air Lines Inc. also recorded a sharp drop in the same yardstick.
  — Bloomberg News, NOLA.com, 21 Aug. 2017
• There has to be some kind of yardstick to measure yourself against.
  — CBS News, 28 Sep. 2022
• Using the lane as a yardstick, Schwartz’s account put hers at 8 or 9 feet.
  — Neal Rubin, Detroit Free Press, 22 Feb. 2024
• Some were the size of sesame seeds, some were the size of pinky fingernails and some were almost as long as a yardstick.
  — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 Oct. 2017
• Many, if not most, weighed more than 200 pounds, the iconic yardstick of Maine deer hunting.
  — Gerry Bethge, Outdoor Life, 18 Feb. 2020
• California, by some yardsticks, is among the states with the strictest gun laws in the country.
  — New York Times, 29 July 2019
• The fifth brightest star in the night sky and about 25 light-years away, this blue star is a yardstick for judging stars’ apparent magnitude or brightness.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024
• Walking on the sandy riverbed, McNeish used a yardstick to estimate how much the water had receded in an isolated pond since her last visit.
  — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024