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

Having thus put a finger on "broadcast mortality," as Radio's weakest spot, Yardsticks on the Air posed a series of pertinent questions: How Many Homes Have Radios?

From Time Magazine Archive

"You mean last year, when the Yardsticks tried to take over the synthetic plants at the Stockyards?"

From This Crowded Earth by Bloch, Robert