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.
• Reader might change that norm at the end of this season.
  — Mohammad Ahmad, cleveland, 19 July 2023
• But the Care School is dedicated to the belief that such norms can be changed.
  — Christina Noriega, NPR, 23 Feb. 2024
• But, like any wave, time passes, and even this novel style gets old and becomes sort of a norm.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Apr. 2023
• The way she's taught me and every artist out here to break rules and defy industry norms.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 1 Dec. 2023
• The way she’s taught me and every artist out here to break rules and defy industry norms.
  — Sadie Bell, Peoplemag, 6 Dec. 2023
• Bus tickets on the Sudanese side cost more than five times the prewar norm, workers and drivers at the Aswan bus stop said.
  — Vivian Yee, New York Times, 4 May 2023
• But the Midwest features stocks that are well below the national norms.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2023
• Breaking style norms can be fun, and these gents are doing it with confidence.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 15 Sep. 2023
• As the summer movie season kicks off, hopes are high for a box office that looks much closer to the prepandemic norm.
  — Dan Gallagher, wsj.com, 9 May 2023
• So, when looking for toys, don’t play into gender norms.
  — Jessica Booth, Parents, 1 Nov. 2023
• Two or three times is very common, though—almost a norm among my Russian-émigré friends.
  — Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
• Recently, a team of canon lawyers set out to propose norms to fill that legislative gap.
  — Nicole Winfield, ajc, 7 June 2023
• But norms are very much socially constructed, and morals change across eras.
  — Wilfred Reilly, National Review, 4 Aug. 2023
• In the Cold War era, when the modern civil rights era was just beginning to bubble up, a Black woman kicked racist and sexist norms to the curb and told a White man what’s what.
  — Patrick Sauer, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2023
• The phone norms also change quickly, causing some people to feel left behind or confused.
  — Heather Kelly, Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2023
• Both try to overcome their social norms and traditions.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 July 2023
• To meaningfully restrain the use of food as a weapon, strong norms against the practice must be paired with new rules and explicit obligations.
  — Zach Helder, Foreign Affairs, 22 Mar. 2024
• We’ve been stuck in the same corporate work norms since the late 1940s when many families could live comfortably on one paycheck and just a third of women worked outside of the home.
  — Erin Grau, Fortune, 14 May 2023
• Part of a wider issue Even in parts of the world where mask mandates were dropped early on, young people are struggling to adapt to life—and the social norms that come with it—post-pandemic.
  — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 6 June 2023
• Become a Subscriber But infections are still nowhere near back to their pre-pandemic norm.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 30 Nov. 2023
• Donald Trump often takes the breath away with his defiance of the basic norms of American public life.
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 9 Nov. 2023
• That shift has been abetted by workplace software such as Slack, with its chatty norms and many emoji options.
  — Lora Kelley, The Atlantic, 30 Dec. 2023
• On the stand, both women described remaining silent for so long due to generational norms.
  — Mark Berman, Washington Post, 2 May 2023
• This can lead to a misalignment of the cultural norms and values of departments and the organization as a whole.
  — David James, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
• The rendition arrives with a music video that finds Walker flirting with gender norms.
  — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 2 June 2023
• The industry is looking at a $9 billion year — still trailing the $11 billion pre-pandemic norm, but a marked improvement from the last few years.
  — Lindsey Bahr, Fortune, 3 Dec. 2023
• Every artist interviewed for this piece agreed that the unspoken norm is to politely ask a representative from the venue not to take any cut of the merch sales.
  — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 1 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 7 May 2024