How to Use keystone in a Sentence

keystone

noun

• Tourism is the city's economic keystone.
• Of course the call to Georgia is the keystone of the case.
  — Star Tribune, 21 Feb. 2021
• In that sense, the frame is both the bedrock and keystone of the entire Chief selection.
  — Bryan Campbell, Robb Report, 21 Apr. 2021
• The vigil is the keystone event of Elvis Week, which began Aug. 8.
  — Carly Mallenbaum, USA TODAY, 14 Aug. 2020
• 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
• The ponderosa is a keystone species; the fates of many others are tied to its survival.
  — Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2021
• Each of those windows has a wide frame of limestone with a tapered keystone at the top.
  — Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 9 May 2020
• But a keystone in its ruling was the idea that Ms. Smith has a monopoly on websites in the style of Ms. Smith.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 2 Dec. 2022
• For the keystones about prompting of personas in generative AI, see the link here and the link here.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 11 Feb. 2024
• 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
• Now, his status is one of the league’s biggest storylines and remains the keystone to the Ravens’ plans in 2023 and beyond.
  — Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun, 1 Mar. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Because of their place at the top of the food chain, predators are keystone species, crucial to the functioning and structure of ecosystems.
  — National Geographic, 7 Aug. 2020
• These are the keystone species that keep the food web healthy, and the most important are four genera of native trees: oaks, poplars, willows and cherries.
  — Matthew Cicanese and Erika Reiter, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Apr. 2020
• 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
• 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
• Your brand consists of multiple pieces, but video should be considered the keystone of it all.
  — John Hall, Forbes, 8 May 2022
• Moyle was ready with an answer: Tortoises are a keystone species.
  — Sammy Roth, Anchorage Daily News, 2 July 2023
• The keystone of that system is Roundup, enough of which is sprayed annually to cover every acre of farmland in the world with half a pound of it.
  — Charlie Mitchell, The New Republic, 26 Nov. 2020
• Without salmon, which are a keystone species, other wildlife that depend on it will suffer.
  — Nicole Norman, CNN, 2 Apr. 2023
• The Keystone award is special because the keystone is defined as the central stone at the summit of an arc, which locks the whole together as one.
  — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 21 Sep. 2022
• During a stroll through the park, lucky visitors may catch a glimpse of a gopher tortoise, a keystone species that serves as the state reptile of Georgia.
  — Jared Ranahan, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2023
• Yet this wild space, a mixture of wetlands and woodlands where birds and animals raise their young, is the keystone that makes White Rock so special.
  — Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 23 Oct. 2020
• Imagine all the lives saved or injuries averted by having used a horn as a keystone to achieving safety.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 1 Sep. 2021
• In a human workplace, the need for everyone to achieve his or her potential is a keystone of culture.
  — Eric Mosley, Forbes, 5 Apr. 2021
• And while albies may remain rare, the Yaksha fossils will act as a keystone to compare future finds against.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Nov. 2020
• In their view, both the mammoth and thylacine were keystone species in their respective ecosystems, which have been out of balance as a result of their loss.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 16 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024