Sentence examples for measuring sticks for from inspiring English sources

Soaps also serve as measuring sticks for friendships.

"That makes the hard-core players very important, not so much as role models but as measuring sticks for other players".

Eventually, he was enlisting friends to tow him with their motorcycles so that he could generate enough speed to ascend the rickety towers, above which he'd placed measuring sticks, for gauging amplitude.

Over the last few years, by peering at those ripples with extraordinary precision, scientists have begun using them not just as general indicators of primordial conditions, but as measuring sticks for determining the basic statistics of the entire cosmos, like the total amount of matter and energy it contains.

Because the majority of modern Chinese words contain more than one character, there are at least two measuring sticks for Chinese literacy: the number of characters known, and the number of words known.

But the computers have proven to be solid measuring sticks for comparing apples and oranges.

"It's a great measuring stick for us," Jarvis said.

"They've been the measuring stick for a long time".

The measuring stick for the merger is not three months, six months, nine months.

A million dollars a soldier, per year — can we use that measuring stick for everything?

"The expo has always been viewed as a measuring stick for the city".