How to Use keystone in a Sentence

keystone

noun

• Tourism is the city's economic keystone.
• Just trying to get to the keystones in this instance.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 24 Jan. 2026
• That does seem like a keystone way to navigate your startup.
  — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Dec. 2025
• The ponderosa is a keystone species; the fates of many others are tied to its survival.
  — Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2021
• In ecosystems, keystone species—like beavers or sea stars—are small but essential.
  — Scott Hutcheson, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
• This aesthetic remained a band keystone for the rest of its career to date.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 12 July 2017
• In that sense, the frame is both the bedrock and keystone of the entire Chief selection.
  — Bryan Campbell, Robb Report, 21 Apr. 2021
• Childs learned then that bats are a keystone species, on which other species in an ecosystem greatly depend.
  — Mary Grace Keller, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 28 Oct. 2019
• The new piece is something of a keystone, connecting two other vast coastal tracts that were about a mile apart.
  — Erin Edgemon, AL.com, 21 Oct. 2017
• The keystones will be presented.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
• Careerism, not community, is the keystone in the arch of life.
  — Derek Thompson, The Atlantic, 13 Dec. 2020
• Offshore wind is a keystone to the Northeast’s climate goals.
  — Benjamin Storrow, Scientific American, 22 July 2019
• That allowed Dell's rep to pull off the keystone north of the keyboard and then slide the keyboard up and out.
  — Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 15 Dec. 2022
• And how exactly does that fit into the equation of the keystones of our survival?
  — Outside Online, 12 Nov. 2025
• To many in the US, the keystone of the American dream is a house.
  — Michaëla De Lacaze Mohrmann, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2026
• Your brand consists of multiple pieces, but video should be considered the keystone of it all.
  — John Hall, Forbes, 8 May 2022
• Beavers, a keystone species, have been found to help mitigate the spread of wildfires, thanks to their water-damming habits.
  — Lucy Sherriff, oregonlive, 1 May 2021
• Paine dubbed the starfish a keystone species, after the necessary center stone that locks an arch into place.
  — Adam Hadhazy, Discover Magazine, 10 Oct. 2019
• Kim learned that beavers are a keystone species — an organism that holds an ecosystem together.
  — Elizabeth Hernandez, Denver Post, 16 Apr. 2026
• These small fishes—which are keystone species, critical to aquatic food chains—once spawned in coast rivers in the billions.
  — Paul Greenberg, Smithsonian, 10 Apr. 2017
• Bison are a keystone species to North American prairies.
  — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Apr. 2026
• The New York Yankees could be looking for an upgrade at the keystone.
  — Matt Robison, Newsweek, 20 Nov. 2024
• In short, transiting worlds have proved to be the keystones in the burgeoning search for Earth’s cosmic twins.
  — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 11 Sep. 2019
• These paintings are keystone works of Western art, and were at the top of my list of Umbrian must-sees.
  — Peter Terzian, Travel + Leisure, 17 Oct. 2024
• As the keystone of Central Europe, Poland shows the stakes clearly.
  — Mark Sappenfield, Christian Science Monitor, 3 June 2025
• Hartford Bonanza is always meant to be a keystone summer event.
  — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 28 June 2026
• City’s new keystone might not be as eye-catching on the pitch as Chelsea’s all-action attacker Rogers.
  — Cerys Jones, New York Times, 24 July 2026
• The sign describes how Whitebark is a keystone species essential for the health of the mountain ecosystem.
  — Jayme Moye, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Feb. 2023
• For the keystones about prompting of personas in generative AI, see the link here and the link here.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 11 Feb. 2024
• Here, Landau functions more as an emotional keystone.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 23 Oct. 2025