How to Use normative in a Sentence

normative

adjective

• The only way to counter normative drift is to stiffen the guardrails.
  — David Montgomery, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2020
• These narratives are rarely right or wrong in a normative sense.
  — Jennifer M. Harris, Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2025
• Right now, my sons don’t have a gender normative framework yet.
  — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 30 Apr. 2019
• Find a dark hole and cry from the injustice of not having the most normative nob?
  — Anna Pulley, RedEye Chicago, 7 Mar. 2018
• Though there is some science in the comment, a lot of it is about normative concerns.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 3 May 2012
• Some feel alienated from the normative roles of wife and mother.
  — Washington Post, 27 May 2021
• And somehow, her over-the-top gender-normative attire isn’t a turnoff.
  — Jen Gann, The Cut, 27 June 2017
• This law is really aimed at making normative change, that the onus should fall on platforms.
  — Bobby Allyn, NPR, 19 Dec. 2024
• For one, this is a very gender normative way to measure handsomeness.
  — oregonlive, 12 Dec. 2019
• Cabin crew uniforms are well-known for being strict and gender normative.
  — Francesca Street, CNN, 11 Aug. 2021
• In the West, hookup culture is normative among adolescents and young adults.
  — Louise Perry, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2022
• One of the requisites of effective satire is that there has to be a kind of normative baseline from which things go awry.
  — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 29 June 2022
• The second is more normative, and that is upholding the non-use of chemical weapons.
  — Israel Kasnett, Jewish Journal, 24 Apr. 2018
• Such perspectives can create new normals that are less, well, normative.
  — Kristin Girten, The Conversation, 8 Apr. 2021
• This is often described in very normative terms as corruption.
  — Nathaniel Parish Flannery, Forbes, 1 Sep. 2021
• And the undoing of the normative tropes of, like, Sex is this act that starts with foreplay and ends with the male climax!
  — Rachel Handler, Vulture, 14 May 2026
• Some though prefer to describe the listing as a global normative framework.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 14 Apr. 2022
• To many, the word burlesque may first bring to mind an image of a certain type of normative, white, cisgender woman.
  — Steven Thrasher, Teen Vogue, 18 July 2019
• Tattoos covered both of his arms — a style element that my teenage children tell me is now considered normative.
  — New York Times, 6 Feb. 2020
• The system compares these metrics to all other ads to make normative comparisons.
  — Charles Taylor, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
• Trying to provide more of a normative environment that is less stressful for inmates and staff.
  — Mike Hendricks, kansascity.com, 27 May 2017
• Let the middle form normative effects to influence the naysayers.
  — David Rock, Forbes, 6 May 2021
• And pushing kids out of school through suspensions and expulsions for behaviors that are deemed non-normative.
  — Jordan A. Rothacker, SPIN, 31 Dec. 2022
• What’s a guy to do whose free-spirited life doesn’t adhere to puritanical normative hours?
  — Jeff Gordinier, Esquire, 18 Oct. 2017
• The puzzle was updated midday to reflect the more normative spelling.
  — Philissa Cramer, Sun Sentinel, 2 Jan. 2025
• The vilification of the 'other side' is now normative among too large a swath of our population.
  — Nate Bennett, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2023
• Even in a love match beyond social norms of that era, the normative problems of power and dependency insist on arising.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 14 May 2017
• Today, the power and appeal of putting Black and nonwhite, non-normative faces of any kind onscreen is self-evident.
  — Jordan Coley, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2020
• Among straight men, long hair and (certain) necklaces and (certain) pairs of earrings are almost normative, at least in some communities.
  — New York Times, 11 Aug. 2021
• The Parisienne’s static archetype seemed to embrace less normative, narrow ideals towards a wider scope of lifestyles and choices.
  — Alice Pfeiffer, CNN, 6 Mar. 2024