How to Use normative in a Sentence

normative

adjective

• The only way to counter normative drift is to stiffen the guardrails.
  — David Montgomery, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2020
• Find a dark hole and cry from the injustice of not having the most normative nob?
  — Anna Pulley, RedEye Chicago, 7 Mar. 2018
• Though there is some science in the comment, a lot of it is about normative concerns.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 3 May 2012
• That is a question where the answer to that is, No. 1, both normative and positive.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2019
• And somehow, her over-the-top gender-normative attire isn’t a turnoff.
  — Jen Gann, The Cut, 27 June 2017
• In the West, hookup culture is normative among adolescents and young adults.
  — Louise Perry, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2022
• Some feel alienated from the normative roles of wife and mother.
  — Washington Post, 27 May 2021
• One of the requisites of effective satire is that there has to be a kind of normative baseline from which things go awry.
  — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 29 June 2022
• The second is more normative, and that is upholding the non-use of chemical weapons.
  — Israel Kasnett, Jewish Journal, 24 Apr. 2018
• Right now, my sons don’t have a gender normative framework yet.
  — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 30 Apr. 2019
• To many, the word burlesque may first bring to mind an image of a certain type of normative, white, cisgender woman.
  — Steven Thrasher, Teen Vogue, 18 July 2019
• For many Americans, Trump’s lack of a legal and normative compass was too much to endure.
  — Norman Eisen, CNN, 23 Sep. 2022
• On one side stood the humanitarians, who viewed the EU as a normative power, a shining light on a hill.
  — The Economist, 12 Mar. 2020
• For one, this is a very gender normative way to measure handsomeness.
  — oregonlive, 12 Dec. 2019
• Today, the power and appeal of putting Black and nonwhite, non-normative faces of any kind onscreen is self-evident.
  — Jordan Coley, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2020
• Despite her brassy assurance, Deep Water obeys the most normative rules its genre, with de Armas showing off more skin than any of her paramours.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 16 Mar. 2022
• Some though prefer to describe the listing as a global normative framework.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 14 Apr. 2022
• Cabin crew uniforms are well-known for being strict and gender normative.
  — Francesca Street, CNN, 11 Aug. 2021
• Let the middle form normative effects to influence the naysayers.
  — David Rock, Forbes, 6 May 2021
• The vilification of the 'other side' is now normative among too large a swath of our population.
  — Nate Bennett, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2023
• Garner was born in Naperville, Ill., in 1942 and recalls feeling detached from the normative culture of suburbia at an early age.
  — Evan Moffitt, New York Times, 30 June 2023
• The film was very much about Cady, played mostly as a normative character by an early-career Lindsay Lohan.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 8 Apr. 2018
• Trying to provide more of a normative environment that is less stressful for inmates and staff.
  — Mike Hendricks, kansascity.com, 27 May 2017
• The right wants to assert control over an array of non-normative sexualities, family units, and ways of being in the world.
  — Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The New Yorker, 6 July 2022
• Even in a love match beyond social norms of that era, the normative problems of power and dependency insist on arising.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 14 May 2017
• Tattoos covered both of his arms — a style element that my teenage children tell me is now considered normative.
  — New York Times, 6 Feb. 2020
• And pushing kids out of school through suspensions and expulsions for behaviors that are deemed non-normative.
  — Jordan A. Rothacker, SPIN, 31 Dec. 2022
• Among straight men, long hair and (certain) necklaces and (certain) pairs of earrings are almost normative, at least in some communities.
  — New York Times, 11 Aug. 2021
• Such perspectives can create new normals that are less, well, normative.
  — Kristin Girten, The Conversation, 8 Apr. 2021
• Over the past 200 years, the pendulum has started to shift back, thanks to the spread of Western values and normative monogamy, which dampens the potential unequal reproductive outcomes between the rich and the poor.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 30 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024