| There is in fact no yardstick by which one country can be judged to be playing fair in its trade relations with others. |
| It is only at the end-point that, for want of a better yardstick, a probabilistic test is applied. |
| The teacher rapped on the chalkboard with a yardstick, making some of the kids fall out of their desk comically. |
| He is piling them up because the stacks serve as a kind of yardstick, measuring a new social phenomenon that is gaining ground in Germany. |
| Relying exclusively then on that particular line of form could be an unreliable yardstick. |
| We had some sturdy white board behind a cabinet, so I brought that out for him, along with a compass, yardstick, pencil, glue, and Exacto knife. |
