Use of the word yardstick in a sentence example

yardstick

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IQ tests are no more used as a yardstick to measure students'intelligence. [Please select]

He will then find he has a yardstick against which to measure the worth of all other literature on the same subject. [noun]

His success has become the unofficial yardstick for any overseas executive put in charge of a local firm in trouble. [noun]

A dwarf can always measure a giant: all that he needs is a yardstick. [noun]

He therefore had neither time nor inclination to measure everyone's morality with a Puritanic yardstick. [noun]

Then he jumped around frantically, waving his yardstick-shepherd's crook, and shouted to the villagers, "Wolf." [Please select]

I thought I was taller, but I suppose I will have to believe my own yardstick. [Please select]

Next time I'll have 'em made to measure with a ten-foot pole instead of a yardstick. [Please select]

"You don't measure theological discussions by the yardstick, young man." [Please select]

I assure you, I am worse misfitted than is Master Yardstick yonder in those Falstaffian hose. [Please select]

George came in, with a yardstick tied around his waist for a sword, and made a deep bow which made the spinet giggle violently. [Please select]

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