How to Use normalcy in a Sentence
normalcy
noun- Let's hope for an end to the war and a return to normalcy.
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Spring is in the air, and with it, the hope of just a taste of normalcy.
—Sarah Spellings, Vogue, 4 May 2021
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For a moment, at least, there's a sense of normalcy in the U.S.
—Steve Peoples, ajc, 14 Nov. 2022
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The scent of hot dogs — the kind with mustard, not the mutts — signaled a sense of normalcy.
—Mark Didtler, Star Tribune, 4 May 2021
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The scent of hot dogs — the kind with mustard, not the mutts — signaled a sense of normalcy.
—Mark Didtler, ajc, 5 May 2021
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The scent of hot dogs — the kind with mustard, not the mutts — signaled a sense of normalcy.
—Mark Didtler, orlandosentinel.com, 7 May 2021
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There does seem to be more normalcy and ease of doing things in the air.
—Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 2 May 2022
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This battle will have a bit of normalcy to it that the last one didn’t.
—Stephen Means, cleveland, 1 Feb. 2023
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With the prom, Boggy Creek again gave her a sense of normalcy.
—Michael Cuglietta, Orlando Sentinel, 28 June 2024
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His return to normalcy would have to wait a bit longer.
—Adam Sella, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2024
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Reach out to your customers, reach out to those that want to get back to normalcy.
—Deborah Yetter, The Courier-Journal, 12 Apr. 2021
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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
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But with war still raging in the country’s south and the east, the sense of normalcy is fragile.
—BostonGlobe.com, 23 Aug. 2022
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In the past few months, life in the EU has been inching toward normalcy.
—Eric Sylvers, WSJ, 16 June 2021
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That would be a first step; Haiti will need many more to return to normalcy.
—Renata Segura, Foreign Affairs, 29 Aug. 2024
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Some friends came to my apartment last week for a dose of normalcy.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 17 Jan. 2025
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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
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Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said there is a sense of normalcy to the start of this season.
—Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 19 Oct. 2022
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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
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Some applaud the changes, and are ready to return to some normalcy.
—Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2022
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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
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Being at the garden was a return to normalcy for the tot.
—Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News, 6 Oct. 2021
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In the summer of 2019, the last year of normalcy, Ezekiel Elliott held out for more money.
—Calvin Watkins, Dallas News, 23 Sep. 2021
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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
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More and more, mandates look like our surest path to normalcy.
—Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2021
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But the question is: What happens when the world returns to some form of normalcy?
—Brett Owens, Forbes, 25 Apr. 2022
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The family's fall to normalcy is humbling to say the least.
—Milan Polk, Men's Health, 29 Sep. 2022
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The Paris 2024 Olympic Games, by contrast, aim at a return to normalcy.
—Saima S. Iqbal, Scientific American, 7 Aug. 2024
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And maybe a little bit easier, in its way – for the normalcy of the challenge.
—Jim Alexander, Oc Register, 26 June 2025
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The right-hander’s outing against Chicago, then, was a return to normalcy: a 1-2-3 ninth inning with a pair of swinging strikeouts.
—Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 27 June 2025
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