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How can you use “cornerstone” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Evita: In the New Republic , historian Enrique Krauze lists the horrors of Perónism glossed over by the musical and film: the torture and murder of political opponents, often under Nazi tutelage; the sheltering of war criminals, possibly for personal profit; the destruction of the Argentine economy; the laying of the cornerstone for the "Dirty Wars" of the 1970s and 1980s.
Substitute the word "depression" for "despair" and you have a cornerstone of modern psychotherapy.
Cousy boasted that Bradley "makes human rights a cornerstone, really, in terms of his priorities … All those problems stem, obviously, from man's inhumanity to man.
It endorsed the creation of an ERC as ‘the cornerstone for the ERA and the key approach to developing a locus for…long-term fundamental curiosity-driven research judged on the basis of excellence and merit’.
Gesher's [Levy's political party's] pulling out of the coalition removes a cornerstone from the Netanyahu government.