Examples of 'yardstick' in a sentence

Meaning of "yardstick"

Yardstick: (noun) Yardstick is a long, narrow strip of wood or metal that is marked with units of length and used for measuring
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  • A measuring rod thirty-six inches (one yard) long.
  • A standard to which other measurements or comparisons are judged.

How to use "yardstick" in a sentence

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This is the yardstick for future projects.
The pubic symphysis is an excellent yardstick of age.
Targets provide a yardstick for measuring progress.
Yardstick competition for transport infrastructure services.
Care of the elderly is a yardstick of a civilised society.
These things are not measured with a yardstick.
It will be a yardstick for how we want things to be.
Now we will check with the yardstick.
Air quality is a yardstick for quality of life.
There is something wrong with this yardstick.
It is a yardstick that stood him in good stead.
There is only a subjective yardstick or measure of such.
Cost effectiveness cannot be the only yardstick.
That became the yardstick for excellence.
I need to have both to satisfy my own yardstick.

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Against the yardstick of the best performers.
Need for a common reference base and yardstick.
The only yardstick is his own pleasure.
Let us judge our world by the yardstick of justice.
The yardstick of price is not sufficient.
I would not use me as a yardstick for anything.
By this yardstick you and all of us will be judged.
For me yoga is primarily a yardstick to inner peace.
My yardstick got caught in the handle.
This is precisely the yardstick to see love.
Is the yardstick by which future boyfriends will be measured.
The light that is the yardstick of the universe.
By any yardstick that is a catastrophic decline in a major industry.
Customer satisfaction is the yardstick by which we measure ourselves.
The yardstick coefficients will always be accurately represented.
We will use this as a yardstick to gauge your performance.
The yardstick coefficients have been quantized very accurately.
I am not gonna be the yardstick in a penis measuring contest.
Economic growth alone was unacceptable as the yardstick of progress.
The same yardstick should be used for everyone.
It does not fix an absolute and rigid yardstick of measurement.
You can use a yardstick and be quite accurate.
Not everything can be measured by the same yardstick.
Quality as the yardstick for everyone.
It looks much like an everyday yardstick.
I realise this yardstick is use less.
We stole his rig at this yardstick.
The basic yardstick is a person on foot.
Food safety is of course the yardstick in this area.
Wealth as a yardstick of the right to information.
The purpose of a creed is to act as a yardstick of correct belief.
It has become a yardstick by which we measure right and wrong.
To measure them by her own yardstick.
We can not construct a yardstick for annual immigration.
She provided me with an ethical yardstick.

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