Sentence examples for linchpin is from inspiring English sources
TV, a universal "remember that?" linchpin, is big.
The linchpin is Day-Lewis, effortlessly upstaging co-stars DiCaprio and Cameron Diaz.
Despite the economic advantages of factory construction, the sector's linchpin is money for loans to homebuyers.
Most trying for this self-styled Odysseus, and the narrative linchpin, is his return to Santiago, in 1990.
Durant's evolution from practice player to USA Basketball linchpin is what Colangelo envisioned when he began four years ago.
The linchpin is Chow, played by Leung, who is reprising his character from In the Mood for Love.
Eventually, and inevitably, the Mobutu linchpin was unplugged.
"I said to Bashir, 'This is what you want?' And he said, 'Yes.' " The linchpin was oil.
The speech, like the campaign of which it is a linchpin, was positively Manichean: competence versus chaos, wise saving versus "deeply irresponsible" expenditure, Tory security versus Labour disaster.
The rail network, the linchpin being the bullet trains, or Shinkansen, is incredible - a Formula One affair compared with the filth, chaos and expense of British trains.
The linchpin was still George Gershwin, a pioneer in bridging the worlds of the jazz club, the musical theater house and the concert hall.
