Sentence examples for yardstick is a from inspiring English sources

Using achievements in languages as a yardstick is a particularly nasty trick.

Underlying these biological yardsticks is a not-so-hidden condescension.

All the same, £9m – even when judged against the banking industry's otherworldly yardsticks – is a remarkable sum.

When measuring the opportunities available in the stock market, using the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 Index as your only yardsticks is a mistake.

The scientists compared recordings from normal periods to those just before and during seizures; their yardstick was an algorithm developed from chaos theory to measure the degree of complexity in brain activity.

If your yardstick is whether a work is well known, chronological surveys of Beethoven's piano sonatas move slowly at first: It isn't until the Sonata No. 8 in C minor (Op. 13) that the first nickname ("Pathétique") appears.

A yardstick is attached to a wall at about shoulder-height.

The Atopic Dermatitis Yardstick is part of a series developed in response to the need to proactively address the loss of disease control for atopic illnesses at all levels of severity.

To spot which of your securities may be called early, a good yardstick is whether the security you hold has a coupon rate 1% or more above debt of equal credit quality.

"A yardstick is the feelings of hopelessness and powerlessness here in Gaza.

If you are, say, a front-end developer or data scientist, being set against such a yardstick is perplexing.