Example Sentences

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I like the Yardsticks series for children ages 4 and up and the classic Louise Bates Ames series for the younger years.

From Washington Post • Nov. 13, 2018

Yardsticks like price-earnings ratios exist to indicate whether stocks are reasonably valued, but commodities typically move, often with violent swings, in response to ephemeral and often unpredictable economic, industrial and even meteorological events.

From New York Times • Jul. 14, 2017

Yardsticks are boring; it’s like they’re things you had to do.

From Time • Oct. 23, 2014

The fruits of that investigation appeared last week as Yardsticks on the Air, a pamphlet published by ANPA, which struck the year's hardest wallop at Radio as an advertising medium.

From Time Magazine Archive

"But you talk as though the Yardsticks were united."

From This Crowded Earth by Bloch, Robert