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
• 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
• 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
• Joey King is breaking beauty norms in the dystopian film Uglies.
  — Benjamin Vanhoose, Peoplemag, 8 Aug. 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
• 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
• That was something that was far from the extremely polished K-pop norms.
  — Tetris Kelly, Billboard, 10 Sep. 2024
• Where life was hard and unpredictable, and the world and its ways uncertain, suffering was the norm.
  — Time, 10 Jan. 2023
• Experts have assured us that this is well within the safety norms.
  — Jason Volack, ABC News, 25 Sep. 2024
• But the Midwest features stocks that are well below the national norms.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2023
• Policy changes are the key to changing social norms, Rao says.
  — Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2023
• Breaking style norms can be fun, and these gents are doing it with confidence.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 15 Sep. 2023
• Until Grace Berger comes back or IU shows an ability to handle a press, this will be the norm.
  — Wilson Moore, The Indianapolis Star, 2 Jan. 2023
• Of all the taboos Wong breaks, from getting into the gory truth of breastfeeding to working blue while visibly pregnant, the unabashed embrace of her own success may be the most challenging of all to social norms.
  — Variety, NBC News, 9 Oct. 2024
• There definitely seem to be some norms where masculinity goes with choking and femininity goes with being choked.
  — Keren Landman, Vox, 8 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 29 Oct 2024