Sentence examples for * the yardstick from inspiring English sources

* The yardstick of earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization -- Ebitda -- is meaningless.

You can't beat the yardstick.

That's the yardstick we measure ourselves by.

Height per se is not the yardstick".

Two weeks ago, the yardstick was the surprising Islanders.

"That will be held up as the yardstick," he said.

WERE advertisements rather than sales the yardstick, Apple would have dominated the computer industry for decades.

Measured by the yardstick of the amounts paid for Modigliani and Cézanne, it is laughably low.

Jackson's achievements will be the yardstick by which N.B.A. coaches are measured, possibly forever.

The answer could have something to do with the yardstick most commonly used to measure storms.

By the yardstick of Academy membership, he's wickedly au courant, verging on edgy.