How to Use touchstone in a Sentence

touchstone

noun
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  • Good service is one touchstone of a first-class restaurant.
  • The trauma of the famine is a touchstone, but so is the green-joy part.
    — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Was that a touchstone for you at all, in life or for this show?
    — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Was that show a touchstone for you at all in life or for this show?
    — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 17 Aug. 2022
  • This record [Leak 04-13 (Bait Ones)] was the touchstone for my album.
    — Melissa Giannini, ELLE, 31 May 2023
  • The series streams on Disney+ and has become a Gen Z touchstone.
    — Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Jan. 2023
  • High Fidelity, based on the novel of the same name, is a touchstone.
    — Milan Polk, Men's Health, 11 Jan. 2023
  • The plight of the prisoners is an emotional touchstone across the West Bank and Gaza.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 24 Nov. 2023
  • For Field, Mahler’s Fifth has always been a touchstone.
    — Josh Rottenbergstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2022
  • The tape proved to be a key touchstone in the evolution of Milwaukee’s sound.
    — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 21 Aug. 2023
  • The life and art of Aretha Franklin remain a cultural touchstone.
    — Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2022
  • The references to the touchstones of the work of her late boss felt timely in this collection.
    — Laure Guilbault, Vogue, 11 Sep. 2023
  • The reference is to the document adopted in May 1948 as the state was proclaimed – long a touchstone for the court.
    — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Aug. 2023
  • In the 50 years since it was first published, the book has become a cultural touchstone.
    — Sam Reed, Glamour, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Still, World of Noise is a touchstone record for the band and one that Alexakis was happy to revisit.
    — Niko Stratis, SPIN, 14 June 2022
  • Your principles will be your touchstone for your choices in the new year.
    — Kathy Miller Perkins, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2022
  • The Thing was a touchstone in early conversations about the scene.
    — Katie Rife, Vulture, 23 May 2022
  • Since its release, Pi has become a touchstone for the math obsessed.
    — WIRED, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Troublesome and the bridge that runs over it is a touchstone for many who love Hindman and the writer’s workshop.
    — Carter Sickels, Outside Online, 3 Sep. 2022
  • Music was a touchstone in her father’s life, Edling said.
    — Chicago Tribune, 29 Sep. 2022
  • The 1970s, a Smith touchstone, also were on abundant display.
    — Thomas Adamson, ajc, 20 Jan. 2023
  • But, to quote the one-woman generational touchstone known as Pink, what about us?
    — Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2023
  • The five-bedroom, five-bath pop culture touchstone is on the market now, with an asking price of $5.5 million.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 10 July 2023
  • Elwes is the veteran actor who has starred in pop culture touchstone, The Princess Bride, and toplined the first Saw horror movie.
    — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Apr. 2022
  • Your mind will soon drift toward other Scott touchstones.
    — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2023
  • While Robert Skidelsky’s three-volume biography remains the touchstone for a full account of Keynes’s life and thought, Carter’s brings the thought to life in a way that is truer to the man.
    — Corey Robin, The New York Review of Books, 1 Dec. 2022
  • And over the next 20 years, the album became a touchstone to the next generation of visionaries.
    — Tre Johnson, Rolling Stone, 13 Aug. 2022
  • He was persuaded to avoid the D-word for his other shows in the trilogy, but Dante’s framework remains his touchstone.
    — Nathan Heller, Vogue, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Assuming the anti-lockdown frame has run its course, there would need to be a new such construct—or at least a new touchstone similar to the Urumqi fire.
    — William Hurst, Time, 6 Dec. 2022
  • And, even after all this time, a sporting and cultural touchstone destined to last well into the future.
    — Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2022

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