How to Use touchstone in a Sentence

touchstone

noun

• Good service is one touchstone of a first-class restaurant.
• 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
• The trauma of the famine is a touchstone, but so is the green-joy part.
  — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2023
• And that’s what makes it, for better or worse, a spring-break touchstone.
  — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 26 Apr. 2018
• Their grief will inspire a work of art that remains a touchstone to this day.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2025
• That’s always been my touchstone.
  — Danielle Minnetian, FOXNews.com, 29 Apr. 2026
• But Shakespeare has long been a touchstone.
  — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2026
• Even in death, a book remains his final touchstone.
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 8 May 2026
• That’s that touchstone to your heart and the thing that gets you out of the house and that drives you forward.
  — Gregory Ellwood, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2021
• White was a constant, a touchstone, a captain.
  — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 5 Feb. 2026
• Those touchstones of the past are almost longing for a more analog time.
  — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 17 Sep. 2025
• Your principles will be your touchstone for your choices in the new year.
  — Kathy Miller Perkins, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2022
• The Bay Area can be gadget heavy, which can be a sort of touchstone.
  — Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 2 July 2019
• Has Wilde always has been a touchstone for you, in your life and career?
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Jan. 2018
• Indeed, the touchstones of the debate are a series of place names.
  — Joseph Blocher, Vox, 24 Mar. 2018
• That song in that film was using it as a touchstone for that age of people who all knew a song in a bar.
  — Gary Graff, cleveland, 3 Aug. 2021
• To have a contact or a touchstone in a shelter that would bridge you to something like that?
  — Nicole Brodeur, The Seattle Times, 21 Sep. 2018
• The body was a consistent touchstone.
  — Daniel R. Quiles, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2026
• Gimme some of the specific touchstones.
  — Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2026
• In place of some of the progressive touchstones was something a lot more basic.
  — Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 22 Aug. 2024
• But Herron says that a few have stood out as touchstones of sorrow and conflict.
  — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 20 June 2018
• Not in a retrospective way, but just to have that as the focus; that was the touchstone.
  — Joe Lynch, Billboard, 9 Mar. 2018
• High Fidelity, based on the novel of the same name, is a touchstone.
  — Milan Polk, Men's Health, 11 Jan. 2023
• Since its release, Pi has become a touchstone for the math obsessed.
  — WIRED, 14 Mar. 2023
• Yates’ induction was the high point and emotional touchstone of the evening.
  — Mike Hembree, USA TODAY, 21 Nov. 2017
• Now, one of those pictures hangs from Holly’s rearview mirror in her car, one of many touchstones.
  — Megan Rose, ProPublica, 16 Jan. 2026
• The meme was shared globally, becoming a touchstone of shared grief.
  — R. Daniel Foster, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
• The references to the touchstones of the work of her late boss felt timely in this collection.
  — Laure Guilbault, Vogue, 11 Sep. 2023
• Brauchler notes that Columbine remains a dark touchstone for copycats.
  — Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 20 Sep. 2025