How to Use nontraditional in a Sentence

nontraditional

adjective

• But a new crop of bottles brings smoke to your glass in nontraditional ways.
  — Kara Newman, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2023
• Her path to the Cooper Hewitt was a nontraditional one.
  — Camille Okhio, ELLE Decor, 8 Mar. 2023
• Its goal is to present Bach’s works in nontraditional spaces.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Feb. 2022
• In the preseason and the first two weeks of the regular season, the Dolphins used him in a nontraditional role, getting carries and snaps out of the backfield.
  — Daniel Oyefusi, Miami Herald, 5 Feb. 2024
• Heinz wants to mix up your sauces with some nontraditional flavors.
  — Isabelle Butera, USA TODAY, 13 June 2023
• Land contracts are a nontraditional way to buy a home over time directly from the owner.
  — Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 15 Feb. 2022
• There's so much shame around doing things that are nontraditional, and there's a lot of unnecessary pain caused by the scripts imposed on us.
  — Jacqueline Delgadillo, refinery29.com, 6 Mar. 2022
• But the Detour series of nontraditional works has been shelved, for next season at least, and the three operas will have just two performances each, rather than the four offered in the past.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 July 2023
• Dave and Lois Cho took a nontraditional route to winemaking.
  — Sunset Magazine, 25 Apr. 2022
• For a nontraditional option that’ll make a statement even when the candles aren’t lit, this Michael Aram design is the best menorah to consider.
  — Jamie Weissman, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Sep. 2023
• Her nontraditional approach to the style can be found in her nearly 20-year body of work, notably in her nonprofit mobile art gallery.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2023
• Our happy hour menu is a little more nontraditional, with things like jerk tacos, chicken wings and jerk sliders.
  — Kristine M. Kierzek, Journal Sentinel, 15 Mar. 2023
• Like the Cloud, this one also has a nontraditional quilting pattern.
  — Good Housekeeping, 24 Feb. 2023
• And keeping with the nontraditional theme, all female guests (including Oprah Winfrey!) were asked to wear red.
  — Alex Apatoff, Peoplemag, 4 Sep. 2023
• The fear of losing such connections and the benefits that in-person work can bring is spurring companies to look at nontraditional ways to make this happen.
  — Chip Cutter, WSJ, 5 Feb. 2022
• But live hip-hop is also thriving thanks to nontraditional venues like Offbeat comics and Conkrete Kickz sneaker store, along with coffee shops and parking lots.
  — Jim Beaugez, Rolling Stone, 14 Sep. 2022
• Mette Lykke got three of her most influential jobs in nontraditional ways.
  — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2023
• For a less finicky, albeit nontraditional Alfredo sauce, cooks at some point started adding heavy cream.
  — Aaron Hutcherson, Washington Post, 23 Jan. 2024
• Musk has been vocal in both his contempt for the mainstream press and his appreciation of nontraditional news sources.
  — Brandy Zadrozny, NBC News, 20 Oct. 2023
• Over the months, attractions have devised nontraditional ways for visitors to stay (kind of) close to the characters without coming face-to-face with them, masked or unmasked.
  — Dewayne Bevil, orlandosentinel.com, 7 Apr. 2022
• That belief is the reason the Dolphins had a team outing Thursday night, and it’s the reason Miami’s locker room has a nontraditional setup this season.
  — Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 2 Sep. 2022
• Many nontraditional banks have offerings that cater to entrepreneurs and provide solutions that meet their unique needs.
  — Thomson Nguyen, Forbes, 8 June 2022
• Elizabeth opts for more nontraditional workouts, and makes sure to stay moving while doing her daily tasks.
  — Korin Miller, Women's Health, 30 Jan. 2023
• Across the ocean, researchers at the University of Maryland were busy on a related goal: harnessing the strength of wood for nontraditional purposes.
  — Jude Coleman, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Dec. 2023
• The lion dancers and musicians stepped on Hong’s words a bit, but that didn’t discourage the actor from hustling over to where the dance was taking place and adding a few traditional and nontraditional dance steps himself amid the drums and cymbals.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2022
• The hotel industry views the rise of nontraditional shifts as an advantage compared with other industries because many hotels are open around the clock.
  — Austen Hufford, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2022
• The program was born from a desire to make sure the university met the distinct needs of low-income, first-generation or other nontraditional students.
  — Chris Quintana, USA TODAY, 26 Dec. 2022
• My tiny family of origin is fractured, far-flung, and nontraditional.
  — Kate Christensen, Vogue, 24 Dec. 2023
• The school’s music department is known for its nontraditional approach.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Apr. 2022
• When Sloan was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease and Lewy body dementia, the guard went searching for a cure for his coach, even convincing him to seek nontraditional treatment in the form of injections into his head.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Jan. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024