How to Use normalcy in a Sentence

normalcy

noun
  • Let's hope for an end to the war and a return to normalcy.
  • Spring is in the air, and with it, the hope of just a taste of normalcy.
    Sarah Spellings, Vogue, 4 May 2021
  • For a moment, at least, there's a sense of normalcy in the U.S.
    Steve Peoples, ajc, 14 Nov. 2022
  • The scent of hot dogs — the kind with mustard, not the mutts — signaled a sense of normalcy.
    Mark Didtler, orlandosentinel.com, 7 May 2021
  • The scent of hot dogs — the kind with mustard, not the mutts — signaled a sense of normalcy.
    Mark Didtler, ajc, 5 May 2021
  • The scent of hot dogs — the kind with mustard, not the mutts — signaled a sense of normalcy.
    Mark Didtler, Star Tribune, 4 May 2021
  • There does seem to be more normalcy and ease of doing things in the air.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 2 May 2022
  • This battle will have a bit of normalcy to it that the last one didn’t.
    Stephen Means, cleveland, 1 Feb. 2023
  • With the prom, Boggy Creek again gave her a sense of normalcy.
    Michael Cuglietta, Orlando Sentinel, 28 June 2024
  • His return to normalcy would have to wait a bit longer.
    Adam Sella, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2024
  • At the time, though, track was a taste of normalcy, even when his father went to prison for two years.
    Greg McKenna, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2023
  • But with war still raging in the country’s south and the east, the sense of normalcy is fragile.
    BostonGlobe.com, 23 Aug. 2022
  • In the past few months, life in the EU has been inching toward normalcy.
    Eric Sylvers, WSJ, 16 June 2021
  • That would be a first step; Haiti will need many more to return to normalcy.
    Renata Segura, Foreign Affairs, 29 Aug. 2024
  • Some friends came to my apartment last week for a dose of normalcy.
    Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Yingst said there’s a sense of normalcy in the streets of Kabul as vendors try to sell food.
    Amy Nelson, Fox News, 15 Aug. 2022
  • Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said there is a sense of normalcy to the start of this season.
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 19 Oct. 2022
  • For many and for us, the question isn't will things return to some sort of normalcy soon.
    Todd Spangler, Detroit Free Press, 6 Nov. 2022
  • Some applaud the changes, and are ready to return to some normalcy.
    Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2022
  • Even amid the 16-month-old war in Ukraine, the Kremlin has been focused on normalcy at home.
    Anton Troianovski, New York Times, 25 June 2023
  • Being at the garden was a return to normalcy for the tot.
    Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News, 6 Oct. 2021
  • In the summer of 2019, the last year of normalcy, Ezekiel Elliott held out for more money.
    Calvin Watkins, Dallas News, 23 Sep. 2021
  • This season brings back a sense of normalcy that most players haven’t seen since the end of the 2019 season.
    Stefan Krajisnik, The Indianapolis Star, 3 May 2021
  • More and more, mandates look like our surest path to normalcy.
    Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2021
  • But the question is: What happens when the world returns to some form of normalcy?
    Brett Owens, Forbes, 25 Apr. 2022
  • The family's fall to normalcy is humbling to say the least.
    Milan Polk, Men's Health, 29 Sep. 2022
  • The Paris 2024 Olympic Games, by contrast, aim at a return to normalcy.
    Saima S. Iqbal, Scientific American, 7 Aug. 2024
  • The hideouts are intended to give a little bit of normalcy to troops very close to the front lines.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 3 Nov. 2024
  • Trying to regain normalcy, Ukraine is back in the game.
    Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 1 July 2025
  • The denouement, with the staff reeling from some bad news about a friend and colleague, is juxtaposed with the sound of music and dancing outside as the women of the shelter grasp at a sense of normalcy.
    Tiara Ataii, Vulture, 24 June 2025

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