How to Use linchpin in a Sentence

linchpin

noun

• This witness is the linchpin of the defense's case.
• Chandler will always be the linchpin of L.A. noir to me.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2019
• But then when Trump was elected, that was a sort of a linchpin for putting my outrage into action.
  — Michael J. Coren, Quartz, 21 Sep. 2019
• The Dolphins may be rebuilding this year, but Wilkins is one of their linchpins of the future.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2019
• Calling free safety the linchpin of a Cover-3 defense might be underselling it.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 5 Sep. 2019
• The Wildecats have their entire back line returning and Geralis, a four-year starter, is the linchpin.
  — Baltimore Sun Staff, baltimoresun.com, 2 Sep. 2019
• Seasonal tourism is a linchpin of the local economy, and the fire hit businesses hard, Corbin said.
  — Tegan Hanlon, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Sep. 2019
• Finding the hidden and soon-to-be fantasy star wideout will be a linchpin of a successful fantasy squad.
  — oregonlive, 3 Sep. 2019
• Similar promises have fallen short before, but such a deal would bind a third of the global economy and half its population into a free-trade zone with China as its linchpin.
  — Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2019
• Last week, the same jury deadlocked on a verdict for Magbanua, who prosecutors also had accused of first-degree murder and being a linchpin for the murder-for-hire scheme.
  — Bobby Caina Calvan, sun-sentinel.com, 15 Oct. 2019
• There's no question that the linchpin of the house is blue.
  — Krissa Rossbund, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 May 2021
• That's the linchpin of the state's plan, one that is largely unchanged since the spring.
  — Dave Boucher, Detroit Free Press, 2 Aug. 2021
• So, yeah, that’s the linchpin of the, of the plan for Northeast Ohio, a new healthcare center in Akron.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 18 Mar. 2022
• And then the final linchpin around that was the VMware spin transaction.
  — Mark Maurer, WSJ, 7 Mar. 2022
• The growing Latino vote was a — maybe the — linchpin of this thinking.
  — Eric Garcia, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2021
• In the second round against Colorado, Hintz may be a linchpin for the Stars’ success.
  — Matthew Defranks, Dallas News, 23 Aug. 2020
• On Ozark, Garner plays the emotional linchpin of the show.
  — Chloe Malle, Town & Country, 19 Jan. 2022
• Stephen Yuen [who voices the title character] was the linchpin of the show.
  — Washington Post, 1 May 2021
• Behind the counter hung the linchpin of Uncle Sam’s business: guns.
  — USA TODAY, 5 Aug. 2021
• This is why Bowser feels like a linchpin of the Ravens’ offseason.
  — Childs Walker, baltimoresun.com, 8 Mar. 2021
• The linchpin in the theory that Clare and Dale are still together, though?
  — Lydia Wang, refinery29.com, 5 Nov. 2020
• Pouncey is the linchpin on the Steelers offensive line.
  — Tyler Dragon, Cincinnati.com, 7 Jan. 2020
• Will Hardy asks him to be a linchpin of the team, not a creator so much as a scoring connector.
  — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Nov. 2022
• And in that chess match, Rudy Gobert was the defensive linchpin, just stymieing the Dallas attack in the end-game.
  — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Feb. 2022
• Mount takes the set pieces and is the creative linchpin linking Chelsea's midfield and attack.
  — Steve Douglas, Star Tribune, 28 May 2021
• Manchin and Sinema remain the linchpin for the Democrats to get the president’s agenda across the finish line in the Senate.
  — Andrew Murray, Fox News, 26 Oct. 2021
• The park is the site of one of the Civil War’s most significant battles and a linchpin of tourism in Vicksburg.
  — USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2020
• The busters’ resident brainiac is set up to be the movie’s the emotional linchpin, the bridge between then and now.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 17 Nov. 2021
• In the heart of California, at the place where two great rivers converge beneath the Tule fog, lies the linchpin of one of the largest water supply systems in the world.
  — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 29 Feb. 2024
• Further increasing exports to the West will be a linchpin of Turkey’s economic recovery.
  — Henri J. Barkey, Foreign Affairs, 17 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024