Sentence examples for yardstick and a from inspiring English sources

AS TOUGH as things are, you would need a caliper, a yardstick and a good memory to discern much difference in the holiday ornamentations undertaken by New York City's commercial interests this year.

Policymakers today prefer this nationalistic, Balkanized monetary system, with its lack of an independent, international monetary yardstick and a confusing array of 130 wildly-fluctuating fiat paper currencies manipulated for wholly statist purposes – whether protectionist, welfarist, or warfarist.

Purchase a yardstick and a pencil.

Use a yardstick and a level to keep the points even.

Mr. Duncan said that he considered an institution's completion rate to be such an important yardstick, and that a low graduation rate should be enough to persuade a prospective applicant to look elsewhere.

(Ages 6 to 9) Here are 18 of those perplexing word math problems, but set out in amusing verse beginning with "The Mailman for the 92-Story Building" and including "Pardon My Yardstick" and "Sailing a Bathtub".

Use a yardstick and adhesive tape to make a baseline that is two feet long.

There needs to be a referee with a yardstick, and that is the structure we have put in place.

Crumbine took an invention known as the Fly Bat — a screen attached to a yardstick — and renamed it the Fly Swatter, which became the generic term we use today.

It sounds like a very subjective measure, without having cops take out a yardstick and measure.

Shaped like a wedding cake that's topped with a fluted punch bowl, it's as tall as a yardstick and stands without peer in both form and function.