YARDSTICK in a Sentence

Learn YARDSTICK from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
Example sentences for YARDSTICK, such as:
1. Durability is one yardstick of quality.
2. By any yardstick, that's a large amount of money.
3. On what kind of yardstick is he basing his judgment?
4. Profit is the most important yardstick of success for any business.
5. We don't have a common yardstick by which to compare the two cases.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of YARDSTICK
yardstick
 n.  a ruler or tape that is three feet long
 n.  a measure or standard used for comparison
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1  By any yardstick, that's a large amount of money.
2  Profit is the most important yardstick of success for any business.
3  We don't have a common yardstick by which to compare the two cases.
4  Durability is one yardstick of quality.
5  On what kind of yardstick is he basing his judgment?