How to Use conformity in a Sentence

conformity

noun

• The corporate culture demands a certain conformity of appearance.
• The girls at school are ruled by the twin gods of conformity and cliquishness.
  — Peter C. Baker, The New Yorker, 7 July 2023
• And yet something is pulling at the edges of this conformity.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Jan. 2022
• Most of the ‘protest’ songs about the bomb and race prejudice and conformity are stupid.
  — Mick Stevens, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2021
• Defiance in the face of conformity should be the virtue that’s revered.
  — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2022
• This conformity is why Mrs. Pelosi has for the most part not struggled for votes.
  — Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 11 July 2019
• Wild mink, because of their lack of conformity, have not been able to fill in for ranch stock.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Jan. 2020
• But a crisis of conformity still plagues C-suites and boardrooms around the world.
  — Halla Tomasdottir, Fortune, 28 Apr. 2021
• But those books aren’t driven by the fight against conformity.
  — Andy Crump, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Mar. 2018
• Meg’s faults, in other words, are a response to a world that tries to push her into conformity.
  — Constance Grady, Vox, 29 Nov. 2018
• Even in more upscale areas, like the Park Cities, there is a growing sense of conformity.
  — Dallas News, 28 Sep. 2022
• And despair by the body politic, whose common sense is at odds with the anxious conformity of those in power.
  — Kevin Warsh, WSJ, 12 Dec. 2021
• Outliers who struggle to find their place in a world of conformity and structure.
  — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 25 Aug. 2022
• Or maybe, for the masses, conformity’s pull will remain too strong.
  — Star Tribune, 1 Aug. 2020
• Kant believed that both were out of conformity with reason, and Mr. Pinker sees no grounds to disagree.
  — Yoram Hazony, WSJ, 6 Apr. 2018
• This was in conformity with the terms of the mandate and was arguably more restrictive than in South Africa itself.
  — Paul Nugent, Quartz, 13 Mar. 2021
• While in the program, his head was shaved to maintain the military conformity.
  — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Jan. 2018
• Once launched off the rails of conformity, Jane is a walking cataclysm.
  — Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2021
• Tax conformity requires a two-thirds vote in the Legislature to pass, so the pressure is on.
  — Laurel Rosenhall, The Mercury News, 14 June 2019
• The idea of conformity is one of the major themes in the novel, which was published during an era when Communism thrived.
  — Sarah Pulliam Bailey, Washington Post, Houston Chronicle, 24 Mar. 2018
• Most ads didn’t seek to remind people of a dark world urging conformity.
  — Chris Isidore, CNN, 12 Feb. 2024
• Does that sort of conformity gain us anything in terms of policy?
  — Robert Goulder, Forbes, 6 Oct. 2021
• But such thinking puts her at increasing risk in a world where conformity is king.
  — Tim Smith, baltimoresun.com, 13 Mar. 2018
• Once upon a time, cardboard was going to save us all from conformity.
  — Alexandra Lange, Curbed, 23 July 2021
• Elisa and her fellow outsiders make a memorable ad hoc team, fighting the forces of fear and conformity.
  — Michael Phillips, idahostatesman, 25 Dec. 2017
• But Notre Dame is an exception, an island in a sea of conformity, so far spared from the noxious wave that seems to be rushing over much of academia.
  — Time Staff, Time, 22 May 2017
• With as much conformity in its culture as the N.F.L. has, the mere show of willfulness and rebellion can seem righteous.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2021
• Yet most Swiss laws have now been brought into conformity with EU norms—a requirement...
  — Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2018
• Born at a time when conformity and repression were the cultural norms, Mad’s irreverence would affect TV shows and movies for decades and encourage young people to question the world around them.
  — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 13 Nov. 2024
• In Sister Deborah, real liberation lies in eschewing conformity to any dogma, even the Bible.
  — Tope Folarin, The Atlantic, 21 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Jan 2025