How to Use normal in a Sentence

normal

1 of 2 adjective

• He had a normal childhood.
• They had a normal, healthy baby.
• These little setbacks are a normal part of life.
• Despite her illness, she was able to lead a normal life.
• Normal people don't react that way.
• And that seemed very normal to me.
  — Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 2 Sep. 2025
• That not normal for a lot of teams.
  — Jeff Vorva, Chicago Tribune, 27 Apr. 2026
• By now things seem normal enough.
  — Marisa Meltzer, Vanity Fair, 14 Jan. 2026
• That would be hard enough in normal times.
  — Ian King, CNBC, 1 Apr. 2026
• Your router may still look normal.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 14 June 2026
• But the new normal isn’t cheap.
  — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 31 Aug. 2025
• That's normal for this time of the month.
  — Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 3 Nov. 2025
• Then again, these are not normal times.
  — Olivier Sylvain, Fortune, 16 May 2026
• Let’s move on to some more … normal news.
  — Chris Branch, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2026
• Draskovic said hopes are high that things soon will get back to normal.
  — ABC News, 1 May 2026
• Draskovic said hopes are high that things soon will get back to normal.
  — Darko Bandic, Fortune, 2 May 2026
• Then again, Sasha is no normal climber.
  — Outside Online, 25 Feb. 2026
• Some leaf spot is normal and can be ignored.
  — Tom MacCubbin, The Orlando Sentinel, 23 May 2026
• Van Drunen said the wind was a lot stronger than normal.
  — Darius Johnson, CBS News, 12 June 2026
• These cannot be broken by normal stones.
  — Mayu Saini, Footwear News, 17 Apr. 2026
• The normal thing would be to get a wire transfer.
  — Matthew Bremner, Rolling Stone, 11 Feb. 2026
• And some were normal people who had raised their hands up.
  — Somayeh Malekian, ABC News, 27 Jan. 2026
• The stones in the mix are larger than normal.
  — Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 13 June 2026
• The pattern was weird in the spring but bounced back to normal.
  — Bill Conerly, Forbes.com, 28 Jan. 2026
• The 19 is a lot more than the one, so that’s normal.
  — Oliver Kay, New York Times, 15 May 2026
• The regime has allowed its own ships through the strait as normal.
  — Jim Edwards, Fortune, 8 Apr. 2026
• Kiley says the pause has frozen normal work.
  — NPR, 27 Oct. 2025
• Sneed returned to his normal day-to-day life.
  — Lexi Lane, PEOPLE, 17 May 2026
• Two days became normal, then one, then same day.
  — Rey Covarrubias Jr, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026
• Back to almost his normal, not quite.
  — Torie Bosch, STAT, 13 June 2026

normal

2 of 2 noun

• I'm glad that things are back to normal.
• Oil prices are above normal.
• Your blood pressure is higher than normal.
• Let's hope everything returns to normal soon.
• The problem was the new normal of having a steady life.
  — Marisa Meltzer, Vanity Fair, 6 May 2026
• This winter has been well-above normal for snowfall.
  — Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 25 Feb. 2026
• That’s become the new normal for this franchise.
  — Brendan Kuty, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
• The grayscaler and the time-manager are outliers in the herd of normals.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 10 July 2018
• Mega-ships can often feel like the new normal across the industry.
  — Nathan Diller, USA Today, 26 Feb. 2026
• The novelty of it has given way to a new normal for Brooks.
  — Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune, 9 Feb. 2026
• Instead, the season opens to a new normal that might surprise viewers.
  — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 14 July 2023
• Which of the three groups (normals, smalls, Epi2s) will be most successful?
  — Quanta Magazine, 2 June 2017
• These volunteers believed this is the new normal for public schools.
  — CBS News, 21 Jan. 2026
• Roberts had yet to figure out a new normal for the top of the batting order without Betts.
  — Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2026
• The winter catalyzes the group's acceptance of their new normal.
  — Keith Nelson, Men's Health, 24 Mar. 2023
• Below are some dates in the future, and how much warmer they are compared to today per their daily normals.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2018
• Plenty of celebrities—and lots of us normals, too—go on social media detoxes at the start of the new year.
  — Krystin Arneson, Glamour, 26 Dec. 2017
• Monday peaks close to seasonal normals in the 50s.
  — Gregory Padgett, CBS News, 21 Mar. 2026
• Luna spends two or three days a week in the office, which is typical of the new normal for internships.
  — Joe Heim, Washington Post, 25 June 2023
• Yet at worst, chasing some elusive notion of normal could put the global recovery at risk.
  — The Economist, 22 Mar. 2018
• The sounds had become a strange new normal for the diverse Central neighborhood.
  — Nicole Acevedo, NBC news, 10 Jan. 2026
• Those high temperatures are 30 degrees below normal for both cities for this time of year.
  — Mary Gilbert, CNN Money, 30 Jan. 2026
• According to her bio, Cabot learned her baking skills from her mother and grandmother, like many of us normals.
  — Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 7 Oct. 2018
• Dressing like a duchess is always enviable, but not always affordable for us normals.
  — Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 21 July 2019
• Unfortunately, this just seems to be the new normal for DJI, and not just for drones.
  — PC Magazine, 17 Sep. 2025
• Temps slowly warm as the week progresses, but real heat is becoming less likely as normals are dropping fast.
  — David Streit, Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2017
• The new normal for Georgia film and TV productions remains slow and steady.
  — Rodney Ho, AJC.com, 9 Feb. 2026
• Without that discussion, our new normals may become a world in which a little bit more of our inner selves is out there in the ether, at risk of misuse.
  — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 16 May 2020
• The fog should lift by mid morning and leave Monday sunny and mild with a high of 65, well above seasonal normals.
  — OregonLive.com, 23 Oct. 2017
• The wise will adapt, evolving their strategies to create a new normal that leverages the strengths of hybrid work models–and preserves the best of both worlds.
  — Gleb Tsipursky, Fortune, 8 May 2023