How to Use conformity in a Sentence

conformity

noun

• The corporate culture demands a certain conformity of appearance.
• As for Sylvester, the singer points to the late legend as a trailblazer for combatting gender conformity.
  — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 1 Nov. 2024
• Over the course of the past two hundred years Americans have vacillated between two great fears—fear of chaos and fear of conformity.
  — David Brooks, The Atlantic, 1 Mar. 2002
• Ending the stigma will never be easy in a culture that glorifies competition and conformity.
  — Natalia Salinas, The Mercury News, 3 Jan. 2017
• Davis cites their two violations as failure to acquire a permit for demolition and doing work not in conformity with the terms of the permit.
  — Lauren Smith, House Beautiful, 4 Oct. 2016
• Is Susan’s erratic behavior a reasonable response to the careerism and conformity of the world around her?
  — Terry Teachout, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2016
• In a genre often defined by conformity, Kristofferson, who died on Sept. 28 at 88, was proof of another way.
  — Andrew R. Chow, TIME, 30 Sep. 2024
• These organizations all put a high value on professional success, and view community service as both a form of outreach and a sign of conformity to a middle-class ideal.
  — Jazmine Hughes, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
• Weaving threads of intelligent technologies to create something that escapes conformity and classification to celebrate such an aged whisky has been a thrill.
  — Alissa Fitzgerald, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024