How to Use litmus test in a Sentence

litmus test

noun

• The party is using attitudes about gun control as a litmus test for political candidates.
• That litmus test didn't hurt her ability to find investors.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 26 May 2021
• But there’s a lower litmus test for when the Fed pulls back its other economic supports.
  — Washington Post, 6 May 2021
• The Covid-19 pandemic has been a litmus test for leadership across the world.
  — Devapriya Khanna, Forbes, 5 July 2021
• This article is the turn of VMware to pass the litmus test to be a trustworthy multi-cloud provider.
  — Patrick Moorhead, Forbes, 8 June 2021
• Yet Pence then failed the key -- and, really, only -- litmus test for the quest to be Trump's true heir apparent.
  — Lauren Dezenski, CNN, 25 June 2021
• So Loki has felt like a litmus test for what Marvel TV really wants to be.
  — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 8 June 2021
• There’s a litmus test for knowing when pillar 2 has gone too far: when multinationals are driven out of Ireland.
  — Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 27 May 2021
• What was initially viewed as a diagnostic fumble has become a valuable litmus test for mutation.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 7 June 2021
• Another part tells me our vaccination ask was a perfectly sufficient litmus test.
  — Washington Post, 28 June 2021
• The question was predictable, since visiting the border had become a litmus test among conservatives and daily fare in right-wing media.
  — Clarence Page, chicagotribune.com, 11 June 2021
• Their views on women’s ordination became a litmus test for faithfulness to Christian belief.
  — Susan M. Shaw, The Conversation, 1 June 2021
• Ducey, who is at the forefront of GOP efforts to grow the number of governors' mansions the party controls, already failed that litmus test.
  — Gabby Orr, CNN, 27 May 2021
• Rejecting their donations has now become a kind of litmus test for progressive political candidates.
  — New York Times, 8 June 2021
• As the city’s own democracy movement falters, whether and how long residents continue to commemorate Tiananmen has become a litmus test for their will to keep fighting for their rights.
  — Vivian Wang, New York Times, 4 June 2021
• Or a litmus test in terms of finding the right fit there?
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 3 May 2022
• The litmus test: was the bathroom too small to close the door behind her?
  — Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 16 Sep. 2022
• The matchup with the Vikings will be a good litmus test to see how much the Bengals have improved.
  — Kelsey Conway, The Enquirer, 11 Sep. 2021
• The Seagoville game appeared to a key litmus test Pinkston passed.
  — Rick Kretzschmar, Dallas News, 15 Sep. 2022
• How the game goes could be a litmus test for both franchises.
  — Shayna Rubin, The Mercury News, 27 Jan. 2024
• How will that play out in an era when school choice has become a GOP litmus test?
  — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Mar. 2023
• But the real litmus test is what a host is like behind closed doors.
  — Boris Fishman, Travel + Leisure, 21 Feb. 2022
• If not, what will be the progressive litmus test in 2022?
  — James Pindell, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Dec. 2021
• The jump in gas prices could prove to be a litmus test for Metro and mass transit in general.
  — Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2022
• But who knows what Trump whim will be the next litmus test for remaining in his good graces?
  — Dean Obeidallah, CNN, 10 Oct. 2021
• Have the candidates in Ohio been made to submit to a kind of Trump-2020-election-claims litmus test?
  — The New Yorker, 3 May 2022
• In addition, Squid Game, given its dark and adult themes, may not be the best litmus test.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 11 Oct. 2021
• The stock market’s bumpy start to 2022 provides a useful litmus test.
  — Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic, 30 Jan. 2022
• The annual tournament acts as a litmus test for the men's game (is Tiger okay?!).
  — USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2024
• My mom is oftentimes my litmus test of whether or not something is working.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 23 May 2024

Last Updated: 13 Aug 2024