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Example sentences for: yardsticks

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Healthy societies need a decent supply of verbal taboos and prohibitions, if only as yardsticks by which ordinary people can measure and define themselves.
A TV reporter standing in a suburban neighborhood yesterday: "Some people use yardsticks to measure how much snow we've had.
That is not to say that writing and speech should be measured by the same yardsticks, only that writing cannot be ignored in a proper treatment of language.