Sample sentences for TOUCHSTONE

(click/touch triangles for details)

Definition

a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated

George L. Kclling and Catherine M. Coles, fixing Broken Windows (New York: Touchstone.
Malcolm Gladwell -- The Tipping Point

Almost ironically, the person of Martin Luther King in life and in death became the touchstone for a whole new evaluation among black thinkers.
John Howard Griffin -- Black Like Me
"I'm not a good touchstone to use for judging your sanity."
Patrick Rothfuss -- The Name of the Wind
Death is so genuine a fact that it excludes falsehood, or betrays its emptiness; it is a touchstone that proves the gold, and dishonors the baser metal.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The House of the Seven Gables
You appear to me to be the very touchstone of responsibility.
Charles Dickens -- Bleak House
For I had thought that this last touchstone of the past, at least, would be where I'd left it.
Donna Tartt -- The Goldfinch
Gold can be only known by the application of the touchstone.
Sir Walter Scott -- Ivanhoe
He never had any confidence in Shakespeare's humor—his Touchstones were not only windy fools, but dull ones.
Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel
52 Humor is the touchstone of the truly mythological as distinct from the more literal-minded and sentimental theological mood.
Joseph Campbell -- The Hero With a Thousand Faces
This converted Baptist church is Booth's touchstone.
Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Lincoln
Ay, be so, good Touchstone.
William Shakespeare -- As You Like It
The real touchstone was Mrs. Renling, who couldn't be denied leadership.
Saul Bellow -- The Adventures of Augie March
They were the codes and touchstones of the world, capable of translation and possession.
Toni Morrison -- The Bluest Eye
Desolation had fused into a touchstone, a crystalline, bitter, burred reagent that would never be blunted, never dissolved.
Henry Roth -- Call It Sleep
Family mottoes, touchstones, prayers of sorts, they boasted of honor and glory, promised loyalty and truth, swore faith and courage.
George R.R. Martin -- A Game of Thrones
The touchstone of fraternity was my feeling toward white people, how much hostility I held toward them, what degrees of value and honor I assigned to race.
Richard Wright -- Black Boy
For instance, TV news anchor Diane Sawyer interviewed me, and when the cameras were off, helped me think more clearly about the touchstones I'll be leaving for my kids.
Randy Pausch -- The Last Lecture
The characteristic of Pains and Pleasures is that they are unmistakably real, and therefore, as far as they go, give the man who feels them a touchstone of reality.
C.S. Lewis -- The Screwtape Letters
She appeared to have in her experience a touchstone for everything, and somewhere in the capacious pocket of her genial memory she would find the key to Henrietta's value.
Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 1
Built upon ten thousand years in which men had been taught that charity and self-sacrifice are an absolute not to be questioned, the touchstone of virtue, the ultimate ideal.
Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead

Dictionary / pronunciation — Google^®Dictionary list — Onelook.com^®

Search for other examples by interest

Interest — Source

touchstone