How to Use norm in a Sentence

norm

noun

• She scored well above the norm in math.
• Women used to stay at home to take care of the children, but that's no longer the norm.
• Smaller families have become the norm.
• But maybe this is the new norm?
  — Joshua Kloke, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2026
• Each norm break is excused as style.
  — Literary Hub, 23 Jan. 2026
• The virus is still finding its new norm.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2026
• But this isn’t the global norm.
  — Anastasia Paruntseva, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
• That's been such a norm for me from the age of 4 and 5.
  — Zoey Lyttle, PEOPLE, 27 Jan. 2026
• Then, there may be a bad body odor that falls outside of this norm.
  — Macaela MacKenzie, Allure, 1 July 2022
• The town turns and rotates on these social norms.
  — Jay Glennie, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2025
• There are so many societal norms that are stacked against me.
  — Martine Thompson, Essence, 23 Jan. 2025
• But that, too, is above the national norm.
  — Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 20 Jan. 2026
• But that, too, is above the national norm.
  — Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 31 Jan. 2026
• Drone warfare turns frontline norms on their head.
  — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 18 May 2026
• But with remote working now the norm, the space was much changed.
  — Chase Difeliciantonio, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Feb. 2022
• My hope is that in a few years, direct listings will be the norm.
  — Spenser Skates, Fortune, 18 Feb. 2022
• First, there’s been a huge change in social norms worldwide.
  — Derek Thompson, The Atlantic, 26 May 2026
• Short attention spans and get-rich-quick schemes are now the norm.
  — William Baldwin, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2022
• Free speech norms do not sustain themselves.
  — Jason Jewell, Sun Sentinel, 29 Apr. 2026
• This is a bad batch of titles at the box office, not a new norm.
  — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 28 Oct. 2025
• That's not quite as fast as the summer, when 17 days was the norm.
  — Arkansas Online, 19 Feb. 2022
• What are the conventions and norms?
  — Masud Husain, Big Think, 14 Apr. 2026
• All of his hits are off right-handers, which is counter to his career norms.
  — Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Feb. 2025
• The teacher went on to ask if that was the norm and Williams told her yes.
  — Charmaine Patterson, Peoplemag, 27 Sep. 2022
• Cousler rarely felt safe in those types of kitchens—but those types of kitchens are too often the norm.
  — Isle McElroy, Bon Appétit, 22 June 2022
• Most Americans would not want to give up this norm.
  — Louis Menand, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025
• One thing that’s clear, though, is that some startup norms of the last decade are shifting.
  — Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2025
• What were the social norms of this culture or region?
  — Latria Graham, AFAR Media, 28 Oct. 2025
• This was the central norm that needed to be overturned.
  — Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2026
• The argument rests on the idea that markets move fastest when norms shift.
  — Felicia Jackson, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025