Sentences with standard
stand·ard
S s - The standard of professional cricket has never been lower.
- ...systems that were by later standards absurdly primitive.
- SYNONYMY NOTE: standard applies to some measure, principle, model, etc. with which things of the same class are compared in order to determine their quantity, value, quality, etc. [standard of purity for drugs]; criterion applies to a test or rule for measuring the excellence, fitness, or correctness of something [mere memory is no accurate criterion of intelligence]; gauge literally applies to a standard of measurement [a wire gauge], but figuratively it is equivalent to criterion [sales are an accurate gauge of a book's popularity]; yardstick refers to a test or criterion for measuring genuineness or value [time is the only true yardstick of a book's merit]
- My father has always had high moral standards.
- It was standard practice for untrained clerks to advise in serious cases such as murder.
- She has no standards
- A low standard of living
- The gold standard
- A standard lamp
- A standard size
- The standard work on Greece
- standard of weight and measure
- Moral standards
- standard reference books
- standard procedure
- Standard American English
- We stock the deluxe models as well as the standards.
- They tried to establish standards for a new philosophical approach.
- His work this week hasn't been up to his usual standard.
- He tried to live up to his father's standards.
- A standard reference on medieval history.
- Chairs are standard furniture in American households.
- standard transmission.
- Standard American English; standard pronunciation.
- The program was broadcast on the standard broadcast band.