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
  • That level of per-capita loans was 45% above the U.S. norm.
    Jonathan Lansner, Orange County Register, 8 July 2024
  • Short attention spans and get-rich-quick schemes are now the norm.
    William Baldwin, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2022
  • So the inclusion of the revenge dress marks a departure from the norm on the show.
    Roxanne Adamiyatt, Town & Country, 26 Nov. 2022
  • But the past two seasons have been departures from the norm.
    Julian Benbow, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Nov. 2022
  • Art reflects the social norms of the era in which it’s made, and the early-to-mid-2000s marked the height of a moral panic about weight.
    Rebecca Bodenheimer, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2024
  • That figure is well below the historic norm, the firm added.
    Hannah Miao, WSJ, 3 Apr. 2023
  • This isn’t to say a night like Saturday has become the norm.
    Tyler Tachman, The Indianapolis Star, 30 Jan. 2023
  • But the Care School is dedicated to the belief that such norms can be changed.
    Christina Noriega, NPR, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Rain Pryor grew up in a house where outrageous speech was the norm.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Tieghan Gerard grew up as one of eight kids, so her norm for mealtimes was just a bit of chaos.
    Christa Sgobba, SELF, 9 Dec. 2022
  • While this cycle has been the norm, dry spells are getting longer and hotter.
    Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 6 Jan. 2023
  • 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
  • Martha Roberts of The Colour File strayed from the norm by covering her plant in an array of vibrant hues.
    Anna Fixsen, ELLE Decor, 14 Dec. 2022
  • Joey King is breaking beauty norms in the dystopian film Uglies.
    Benjamin Vanhoose, Peoplemag, 8 Aug. 2024
  • The five innings Yamamoto threw Friday against the Padres has been closer to the Dodgers’ norm.
    Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 14 Oct. 2024
  • This norm has been breaking down for some time, but vestiges of it still remain.
    The Editors, National Review, 7 Mar. 2023
  • These are examples of norms that have to be followed and they’ve been transgressed.
    Sean Illing, Vox, 3 Aug. 2024
  • The sky-high current dividend yield compares with a ten-year norm of about 3.3%.
    John Dorfman, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
  • That subsided a couple of weeks ago, and things settled down to the local norm.
    oregonlive, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Your seat for this aural bliss is a comfy perch with softer padding than the BMW norm.
    Joe Lorio, Car and Driver, 28 Mar. 2023
  • As a mom to two teenage boys, health and wellness conversations are the norm in my household.
    Alison Griffin, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2022
  • 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
  • Rather than being a loss for Washington, however, the resulting web of relationships enabled the United States to work with and through its friends to help shape the bank’s rules, norms, and practices.
    Anne-Marie Slaughter, Foreign Affairs, 30 Oct. 2024
  • One that Moscow intends to be an object lesson to any of its colonies wishing to drift to far from Russia’s grasp - a direction synonymous with Western norms such as transparency, free speech, free elections, independent media and the like.
    Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2024

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