In a sentence
Six example sentences with guideline, each labelled with its topic.
The museum's guideline for loans says a painting must rest for a year between exhibitions before it travels again.
Art
Historians follow a simple guideline when quoting a diary: cite the page and never silently modernize the spelling.
History
The city's design guideline recommends, but does not require, that new shopfronts keep the same cornice height as their neighbors.
Architecture
A common guideline says to keep three months of expenses in cash, though freelancers are often told to hold six.
Finance
The youth league's guideline limits players to one game a day, though tournaments bend it whenever brackets get crowded.
Basketball
The guideline for roasting is twenty minutes per pound, but a thermometer in the thickest part settles the matter.
Cooking
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