Sentence examples for yardstick is that from inspiring English sources

The prevailing yardstick is that every government invasion of privacy must be deemed constitutional if some remote connection to crime or international terrorism can be imagined.

That metric, that yardstick, is the fast-approaching Paris Climate Change conference in November.

That, by any yardstick, is success – for him.

His old Boston family had its own fortune, which, while somewhat modest if your yardstick is the Carnegies, was substantial enough that "when I graduated from law school I became the first member of my family to actually earn a living in 100 years," he jokes.

A better yardstick is education.

If that yardstick was used, then we should stop all cricket.

However, that yardstick was never likely to apply in the case of The Magnificent Seven.

And I would therefore ask that the same yardstick be used in relation to Spain.

Is it significant that more women, to choose one obvious yardstick, are running major theatres?

Time series are often subject to observations that, when judged by the Gaussian yardstick, are outliers.

What yardstick are you using?