How to Use lynchpin in a Sentence

lynchpin

noun

• The casting came down to Ryan Reynolds and Bradley Cooper, but the lynchpin was the mask.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 June 2023
• For me, a cup of tea has become the lynchpin of that routine.
  — Amanda Tarlton and Tessa Bahoosh, USA TODAY, 3 Nov. 2020
• Nvidia, the lynchpin of AI, has soared nearly 136% just this year.
  — Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2024
• Trusts execute the estate plan, and the trustee is the lynchpin of any trust.
  — Matthew Erskine, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2021
• Kristen was one of the stars when this started and a lynchpin for the drama for the rest of the season.
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 4 June 2024
• But throughout the show, the lynchpin of the motif is Prince Philip himself.
  — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 9 Nov. 2022
• But all agree that the Doha agreement was a lynchpin in the collapse.
  — Lolita C. Baldor, USA TODAY, 18 May 2022
• Who knew all that talk about Juliette stealing the heat tape would be the lynchpin to the whole story?
  — Hunter Ingram, Variety, 30 June 2023
• The Saturday night would of course be the lynchpin for the festival.
  — Steve Baltin, Forbes, 1 June 2021
• The San Jose native is the lynchpin of a defense that has allowed just two goals in five Olympic matches.
  — Joseph Dycus, The Mercury News, 9 Aug. 2024
• The matchup also is the lynchpin to a day of programming planned for over a year — and in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.
  — Joe Reedy, Star Tribune, 6 Feb. 2021
• But for Southeast Side activists, the deal is a lynchpin in their civil rights complaint.
  — Michael Hawthorne, chicagotribune.com, 13 Aug. 2020
• To the free world, a peaceful Taiwan is a lynchpin of democracy and a role model of freedom.
  — Keith Krach, Fortune, 27 Apr. 2022
• Murkowski was a top target for Trump, who has made this year's midterm cycle the lynchpin of his crusade to purge the GOP of any critics.
  — Bytal Axelrod, ABC News, 16 Aug. 2022
• Both of their mothers' beating cancer is such a huge lynchpin for them, in my opinion.
  — Brett Nicole, PEOPLE.com, 20 Apr. 2022
• For the Current, the riverfront stadium is the lynchpin to the team’s financial success.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 22 June 2022
• Contrary to the portrayal of Oregon as the lynchpin, Washington was the key block in the Jenga tower.
  — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 3 Feb. 2024
• The center is also the lynchpin of Stanford’s defense, notching 3.3 blocks per game.
  — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 19 Jan. 2024
• Frank Malina opens the exhibition, and is a kind of lynchpin, too.
  — Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 20 Sep. 2024
• Faal, 21, has always been seen very much as a project, a player to develop with a view to him blossoming into a lynchpin of the team.
  — Richard Sutcliffe, The Athletic, 26 Dec. 2024
• As the lynchpin of the prosecution's case, it will be analyzed frame by frame throughout the trial.
  — CBS News, 27 Nov. 2021
• Rick Fox, a former Los Angeles Lakers player, is the lynchpin of the new housing project.
  — Hanna Ziady, CNN, 7 Nov. 2022
• The fate of the unknown killer, however, will likely be the dramatic lynchpin of Season 4.
  — Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 20 May 2022
• The lynchpin of this system holds that the economic system is rigged against the average person.
  — Clifford Young, Fortune, 28 Feb. 2024
• Viserys is of course the most vital character in House of the Dragon Season 1—a true lynchpin to the events in what's turned out to be something of a prologue to the civil war that's to come.
  — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 10 Oct. 2022
• The lynchpin character for Miles, however, turned out to be Hobie Brown, a.k.a.
  — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 5 June 2023
• In the 1930s, Roosevelt struck unpalatable compromises with Democrats in the South who were a lynchpin of his electoral coalition.
  — Ryan D. Doerfler, The New Republic, 13 Oct. 2020
• That a wetland serves as the lynchpin means that the tribe is taking on the restoration of an ecosystem that is especially threatened as the world’s climate trends hotter and more arid.
  — Joseph Lee, Vox, 14 Oct. 2024
• The atomic clock’s lynchpin is the electron—to tell time, researchers use a laser to coax the electrons to jump back and forth between two specific energy levels.
  — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
• One of Paris’ aims is to be the most sustainable Olympic Games ever delivered — a tough gig, given the low-key early editions, never mind their ancient precursors — and the development of the village is a lynchpin.
  — Jacob Whitehead, The Athletic, 31 July 2024

Last Updated: 10 Feb 2025