How to Use nonstandard in a Sentence

nonstandard

adjective

• He works nonstandard hours so that he can pick his kids up from school.
• Here are some of the nonstandard passports and passes out there.
  — Will Noble, CNN, 12 Jan. 2022
• The next step is to research more nonstandard dialects.
  — Cassie Owens, https://www.inquirer.com, 5 June 2019
• Even when the same nonstandard concept is used, it's done differently.
  — Peter Bright, Ars Technica, 27 May 2018
• Composed in 2015, Tanya Tagaq’s Sivunittinni, or the future ones, used a wider range of nonstandard techniques.
  — Dallas News, 21 Sep. 2022
• But that doesn’t help the millions who are uninsured or get the shot at a mass vaccination site or other nonstandard place like an optometrist’s office.
  — Scott Gottlieb, WSJ, 11 Apr. 2021
• Despite nonstandard dimensions, Gallagher was able to buy doors and windows at Home Depot, which reduced the costs.
  — Janet Eastman, OregonLive.com, 17 May 2018
• Knuckleball will have the potential to be bright and brassy, but these players all like to draw nonstandard tones, colors and textures from their instruments.
  — John Adamian, courant.com, 2 June 2018
• In fact, nonstandard spelling of our team names is a Buffalo tradition.
  — Erik Brady, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2020
• For example, counsel will know if any party has nonstandard voting rights.
  — Rebecca Mitchem, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2023
• Of the 515 colleges that awarded them via nonstandard letters, more than a third provided no information about how much attending school would cost.
  — Kevin Carey, WSJ, 13 June 2018
• What qualifies as standard versus nonstandard might surprise you, in fact.
  — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 May 2018
• The Department of Transportation can be reluctant to put up nonstandard signage.
  — Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 13 Aug. 2022
• Is putting up with a bit of stigma a small price for opportunities opened to African Americans with nonstandard qualifications to lead?
  — Valerie Strauss, Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2017
• People with a stutter or nonstandard speech caused by hearing loss or mouth cancer can also struggle to be understood by voice assistants.
  — Katie Deighton, WSJ, 24 Feb. 2021
• Although these grew wearing over time, violinist Andrew May displayed a sure command of the nonstandard techniques.
  — Tim Diovanni, Dallas News, 17 May 2021
• Both artists have heavily influenced Ms. Marling’s work, which, like Mitchell’s and Young’s, often relies on nonstandard tunings.
  — Adriana Balsamo, New York Times, 15 May 2020
• Das Rheingold calls for large orchestral forces, including six harps, and some nonstandard instruments.
  — Dallas News, 4 Feb. 2023
• And the question for those Republicans remains as to whether Trump’s nonstandard approach to tweeting, accountability, etc. is worth hanging on to some form of party unity.
  — Julia Azari, Vox, 17 Apr. 2018
• Residents should not send emojis as videos, pictures and nonstandard keyboard symbols will not be received by emergency services.
  — Victoria Kezra, The Mercury News, 24 Feb. 2017
• Having a nonnormative gender identity and preferring the use of nonstandard pronouns means that I am often misgendered by people who have just met me.
  — Lucy Parks, Outside Online, 22 Jan. 2020
• For the analysis, Mr. Heller and an associate tested whether quotes in 20 cities from seven large insurers differed depending on whether the customer seeking the quote was switching from a smaller nonstandard insurer.
  — Ann Carrns, New York Times, 2 June 2017
• And the article misstates the location of fluorine in a nonstandard periodic table of elements that Thomas Midgley used.
  — New York Times, 19 Mar. 2023
• One more possibility: a heavy vehicle tax has a nonstandard deadline.
  — Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Apr. 2023
• Fauzia’s is a long-running Jamaican cart known as much for its proprietary jerk blend as for nonstandard items like barbecued tofu, excellent fresh vegetables and halal gyro sandwiches.
  — Nikita Richardson, New York Times, 13 June 2023
• If an individual insurer requires nonstandard information from a doctor’s office, it should be charged for the time and effort involved.
  — Sandeep Jauhar, WSJ, 28 Apr. 2021
• Considering that there may be nonstandard scenarios in the interaction, the designer should understand the user's thoughts and intentions.
  — Alex Kreger, Forbes, 27 May 2021
• The company specializes in nonstandard cuts — larger or longer than is typically widely available.
  — Tom Henderson | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 22 Sep. 2022
• Those countries provide about 90 percent of the nonstandard ammunition purchased by the Pentagon, according to Matthew Herring, the company’s owner, though his firm provides just a fraction of the Pentagon’s total orders.
  — New York Times, 25 Apr. 2022
• In theory, such a nonstandard form of dark energy could also profoundly diminish or even reverse its effects in the future, leaving open the possibility that the universe could still experience a big crunch.
  — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 16 May 2018

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024