criterion

In a sentence

Six example sentences with criterion, each labelled with its topic.

• Every applicant must clear one published criterion: five years of courtroom practice, and nothing else counts at the interview.

  Law

• The judges settled on a single criterion for the pie round, and a soggy crust sank three otherwise excellent entries.

  Cooking

• Sharpness at the frame edge was the only criterion the reviewers used, so two cheaper lenses beat the flagship.

  Photography

• Ancient skeptics asked what criterion could separate a true belief from a false one, and then asked how anyone would test it.

  Philosophy

• The bank's only criterion for the small loans was twelve months of steady deposits, and it turned down nobody who met it.

  Finance

• Plus-minus became the coach's main criterion for playing time, so the flashy scorer with poor defense lost his starting spot.

  Basketball

Found in these word lists

Each source is a published word list that contains criterion. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

More Academic words

• summarise
• pursued
• advocacy
• cite
• derived
• confer
• differentiated
• presumption
• accommodating
• indexing
• approximation
• commodity