How to Use criterion in a Sentence

criterion

noun
  • What were the criteria used to choose the winner?
  • As part of that order, the cabinet agencies were tasked with meeting certain criteria regarding their light duty vehicle fleet.
    Tj Martinell | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 5 Oct. 2024
  • Samples are taken from sampling sites around the United States that meet criteria to sufficiently anonymize the data.
    Matt Stiles, CNN, 29 Sep. 2024
  • Portfolio performance is not a criterion due to varying client objectives and lack of audited data.
    R.j. Shook, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022
  • But even prominent constructors deemed professionals by Shortz fail that criterion, not to mention the bulk of constructors.
    Matt Hartman, The New Republic, 5 Aug. 2022
  • The arbiters of style, function and quality in Amazon’s comments section tend to look for a few important criteria before granting the holy grail label to a travel bag.
    Kristine Solomon, Travel + Leisure, 5 Oct. 2024
  • No changes were made to the criteria for how the rule is judged.
    Curtis Zupke, latimes.com, 22 Mar. 2018
  • And this is like, that's the one piece of criteria to stick to, is have fun.
    Lauren Huff, EW.com, 4 May 2023
  • And the criteria for the A-to-F letter grades are on the table for some tweaks.
    Cynthia Howell, arkansasonline.com, 26 Nov. 2023
  • But the criteria for the TV show is to find songs that a queen can perform.
    Stephen Daw, Billboard, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Yet there are no criteria for Coach of the Year that Brown does not meet.
    Marcus Hayes, Philly.com, 9 Apr. 2018
  • Winning games is not the main criteria used for the awards.
    Marvin Glassman, Jewish Journal, 24 May 2017
  • Rank the importance of each criteria on a scale of 1 (low) to 10 (high).
    Dr. Gleb Tsipursky, Forbes, 7 May 2023
  • What is the criteria that folks in Austin are looking to fill this job full-time?
    Charles Baggarly, Dallas News, 10 Mar. 2023
  • The Jayhawks have plenty of foes that fit the criteria.
    Jesse Newell, kansascity, 29 June 2018
  • The Browns were one of six teams that met the show's three criteria for selection.
    Tim Hackett, SI.com, 17 May 2018
  • To meet these criteria, a fish finder doesn’t have to do it all.
    Ric Burnley, Field & Stream, 4 May 2023
  • Both of these criteria are at the core of what ultimate is all about.
    Madeline Mitchell, Cincinnati.com, 12 July 2018
  • The criteria is simply that all the bands on the bill must have at least one female member.
    Karen Bliss, Billboard, 17 Mar. 2018
  • In China's case, only the first of these three criteria is met.
    Jeffrey Sachs For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 6 Aug. 2019
  • That allowed him to meet the polling criteria for entry.
    James Pindell, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Jan. 2020
  • Miles fit the criteria for one of them, and Nikki tapped her inner warrior to get him in.
    Amy Spencer, Good Housekeeping, 30 Mar. 2018
  • At the local halls of fame, the criteria are different.
    Jacob Gurvis, Sun Sentinel, 21 Apr. 2023
  • None of the alerts’ criteria require a person to have been missing for a certain amount of time.
    Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 1 Sep. 2023
  • In the event that a tiebreaker is necessary, the first criteria would be head-to-head race results.
    Andrew Turner, Daily Pilot, 18 July 2019
  • Officers said this didn’t meet the criteria for a threat.
    Zach Mentz, cleveland, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Fast growth, remember, is a very poor criterion in the choice of a shade tree.
    Neil Sperry, star-telegram, 21 Dec. 2017
  • Your training seems at odds with some of these criteria.
    Rob Walker, The Seattle Times, 29 June 2018
  • Walmart and PepsiCo were among the names that met the screen’s criteria.
    Samantha Subin, CNBC, 9 Aug. 2024
  • However, travelers must meet certain criteria to use it, including being 25 or older, being able to upload a digital photo and being able to pay the fee to renew with a debit or credit card online.
    Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2024

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