How to Use golden rule in a Sentence

golden rule

noun
  • The golden rule in sales is to know your customer.
  • I try to live by the Golden Rule.
  • A bit of the golden rule was imposed.
    — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Read on for the golden rules of packing.
    — Hannah Chubb, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Apr. 2026
  • The golden rules of job hunting.
    — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 6 Nov. 2025
  • The golden rule for helping the earth is to produce less new stuff.
    — Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2019
  • Perhaps the golden rule is to always come to a full stop at all stop signs.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 7 Apr. 2021
  • Because retinol is so potent, the golden rule is to start low and slow.
    — Sarah Han, Allure, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Indeed, the golden rule of the art form is to make your partner look good.
    — Adi Gaskell, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2021
  • One version of the golden rule is that the person with the gold makes the rules.
    — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 1 June 2021
  • But just kind of spreading that message that, hey, that whole golden rule thing.
    — Kailey Schuyler, FOXNews.com, 22 Oct. 2025
  • That also means six feet apart will continue to be a golden rule.
    — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 5 Mar. 2021
  • What is the golden rule of foraging?
    — Tiffany Acosta, AZCentral.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • This brings me to one of my golden rules of long-haul family travel.
    — Flora Stubbs, Travel + Leisure, 28 Nov. 2023
  • That being said, don't break that golden rule of using them as your knockout pick.
    — Jim Derry, NOLA.com, 4 Sep. 2017
  • Lighting makes or breaks any photo, and trail cam pics aren’t immune to that golden rule.
    — Tony Hansen, Outdoor Life, 3 Sep. 2019
  • What shines through, whether via religion or science, is the golden rule.
    — Ken Makin, Christian Science Monitor, 15 Jan. 2025
  • One golden rule that's stuck with Kaling is taking off her makeup at the end of the day.
    — Michelle Lee, PEOPLE.com, 6 June 2022
  • One of the golden rules of sneaker collecting is that your shoes must always look new.
    — David Pierson, latimes.com, 3 Nov. 2017
  • That's still the golden rule, Ascher says.
    — Sara Moniuszko, USA Today, 1 Feb. 2026
  • First, from my 25 years on the job, a few golden rules about hiring high school coaches that guide good schools.
    — Mike Hutton, chicagotribune.com, 4 May 2018
  • The golden rule of crop rotation is not to plant members of the same crop family in the same spot.
    — Nadia Hassani, The Spruce, 20 Feb. 2026
  • But the golden rule of traveling in bear country is to store food, and anything that smells like food, away from your tent.
    — Graham Averill, Outside Online, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Even recruiters at some of the world’s biggest companies are adopting that golden rule.
    — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Stephen Kent Johnson Keeping things neat and tidy is a golden rule for house guests.
    — Brittany Anas, House Beautiful, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Here's insider access to the golden rules of skin care, straight from A-list treatment rooms.
    — Liz Krieger, Harper's BAZAAR, 26 Nov. 2015
  • This leads to my golden rule in HR, which is that there is no single rule in HR.
    — Modar Bakir, Forbes, 15 Nov. 2021
  • And everyone deserves the same level of respect—that's the golden rule of thrifting.
    — Heather Bien, Southern Living, 4 Oct. 2025
  • One of the core tenets of Southern hospitality is the golden rule.
    — Karla Walsh, Southern Living, 14 July 2024
  • That's quite a golden rule that Queen Elizabeth II was quite strict about.
    — Chloe Mayer, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 May 2025

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