How to Use deviance in a Sentence

deviance

noun

• Until then, the raw meat boys will see themselves as outsiders, and outsiders breed deviance.
  — Luke Winkie, Bon Appétit, 31 Aug. 2022
• Schools in the country will also remain open, a deviance from the first round of quarantines.
  — Spencer Neale, Washington Examiner, 6 Nov. 2020
• But this doesn’t erase their gender deviance, merely complicates it.
  — Grace Byron, Vulture, 11 Mar. 2025
• For all the deviance, the play's ambitions remain rooted to the study of its characters.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 1 July 2018
• These slurs referenced a convenient other on which white, straight men could project their fantasies of deviance.
  — Literary Hub, 24 Feb. 2026
• One study found that people littered in their work environments as an act of deviance against their employer.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 8 Apr. 2023
• These efforts helped mainstream the idea working on one's physique was a sign of normal male sexuality, not deviance.
  — Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, CNN, 14 Dec. 2021
• This dynamic also highlights the role of the audience in constructing the idea of deviance.
  — Mark Travers, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
• Gender traitors and rebels are hanged on the wall, a continual threat that any deviance from Gilead will not be tolerated.
  — refinery29.com, 9 May 2018
• Marijuana figures sharply in those stereotypes, feeding myths of black social deviance.
  — Syreeta McFadden, Rolling Stone, 1 July 2021
• For thousands of years, mental illness could only be explained by supernatural forces or moral deviance.
  — Celia Ford, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
• That gave researchers a chance to see whether any deviance from vaccination schedules or logistics issues for the shot, which has to be stored frozen, would change outcomes.
  — Jason Gale, Fortune, 25 Feb. 2021
• Criminologists have long known that networks play an important role in deviance and violence.
  — Annie Sweeney, chicagotribune.com, 1 Aug. 2019
• Any minor deviance from the manager’s strategy will be perceived as a personal attack and will be met with punishment.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2022
• Hartman looks at women who have been narrated in terms of deviance and deprivation, and asks us to see their lives as experiments in new kinds of freedom and loving.
  — New York Times, 19 Sep. 2019
• In sociology, Gideon chose a concentration in crime and deviance.
  — Jenelyn Russo, Oc Register, 30 Apr. 2026
• Oleksiy Makeev, Ukraine’s ambassador to Germany was also there, and raised his fist in deviance when the camera panned to him.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Feb. 2023
• People in those societies don’t tolerate deviance and generally follow the rules.
  — Michele Gelfand, Foreign Affairs, 22 June 2021
• She's made to watch a weird short film about deviance, which happens to star Moose and Kevin as two young men who forgo socializing with women to spend time alone together.
  — Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 29 Mar. 2018
• The show tells the story of a world-famous televangelist family with a long tradition of deviance, greed and charitable work.
  — Joe Otterson, Variety, 25 Jan. 2022
• Her latest veers more toward the comic camp, exploring raunchy proclivities and unbelievable deviances in a trailer park of the near future.
  — Atlanta Life, ajc, 18 May 2017
• Their stories have been elevated by Cruella’s delicious deviance.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 2 June 2021
• Reed combined literary aspirations with a fearless eye for deviance and, by extension, a staunch defense of freedom of expression.
  — James Sullivan, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Jan. 2018
• The singer’s life and music were shaped by the political upheaval around him, yet his image has often been softened into a digestible symbol of social deviance to college-age people.
  — Lawrence Burney, Vulture, 28 Mar. 2024
• Mary & George certainly outpaces The Tudors in varieties of deviance depicted.
  — Judy Berman, TIME, 5 Apr. 2024
• Per the logline, the series will explore themes of privilege, manipulation, and deviance to understand why these women become calculated killers.
  — Peter White, Deadline, 11 May 2026
• Instead, partly by lifting the pressure of secrecy and diminishing the feeling of deviance, the talk will loosen the hold of hallucinations and, crucially, the grip of isolation.
  — New York Times, 17 May 2022
• Instead of turning men into hardworking teetotalers, Prohibition encouraged new kinds of social deviance, such as organized crime.
  — Trysh Travis, The Conversation, 7 Apr. 2021
• Early urban reformers, such as Jacob Riis and Jane Addams in the first decades of the twentieth century, were quick to link urban blight and social deviance.
  — Max Holleran, The New Republic, 3 Dec. 2020
• Wearing a set of horns on his head, with a pair of hooves replacing his feet, the singer intentionally evokes the image of Baphomet, an ancient pagan deity often considered a symbol of pluralism and deviance from societal norms.
  — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 11 Feb. 2022