How to Use conformity in a Sentence

conformity

noun

• The corporate culture demands a certain conformity of appearance.
• While in the program, his head was shaved to maintain the military conformity.
  — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Jan. 2018
• Elisa and her fellow outsiders make a memorable ad hoc team, fighting the forces of fear and conformity.
  — Michael Phillips, idahostatesman, 25 Dec. 2017
• There is no time for thought, but only the terror of hopeful conformity to natural tendency.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 22 Dec. 2017
• Many states emulate the definitions of income and deductions in the federal tax code, a practice called conformity.
  — Andrea Louise Campbell, Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2017
• In the past, other parents like Megan Fox received backlash when their children bucked gender conformities with clothing.
  — Alyssa Hardy, Teen Vogue, 2 Nov. 2017
• Exposition is at a minimum and the obligatory speeches about intolerance and conformity are kept short.
  — Mike Hale, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2017
• Indeed, the pleasingly plump new puffers have shed that serial conformity and shapelessness that made anyone wearing one resemble a vertical sleeping bag.
  — Alev Aktar, WSJ, 28 Sep. 2017
• The signal to employers—of diligence, persistence, and conformity—is just as strong whether the applicant studies Sanskrit or cement mixing.
  — Bloomberg.com, 16 Jan. 2018
• Those of us doing the pushing are taking it on the chin in terms of the approval of our elders, but the decision between liberty and political conformity is increasingly clear for many.
  — Cameron Smith, AL.com, 31 Dec. 2017
• Critics viewed him as an emblem of authoritarianism, conformity, and narrow thinking.
  — Johnny Smith, Slate Magazine, 30 Sep. 2017
• The girls at school are ruled by the twin gods of conformity and cliquishness.
  — Peter C. Baker, The New Yorker, 7 July 2023
• And yet something is pulling at the edges of this conformity.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Jan. 2022
• Most of the ‘protest’ songs about the bomb and race prejudice and conformity are stupid.
  — Mick Stevens, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2021
• Defiance in the face of conformity should be the virtue that’s revered.
  — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2022
• This conformity is why Mrs. Pelosi has for the most part not struggled for votes.
  — Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 11 July 2019
• Wild mink, because of their lack of conformity, have not been able to fill in for ranch stock.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Jan. 2020
• But a crisis of conformity still plagues C-suites and boardrooms around the world.
  — Halla Tomasdottir, Fortune, 28 Apr. 2021
• But those books aren’t driven by the fight against conformity.
  — Andy Crump, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Mar. 2018
• Meg’s faults, in other words, are a response to a world that tries to push her into conformity.
  — Constance Grady, Vox, 29 Nov. 2018
• Even in more upscale areas, like the Park Cities, there is a growing sense of conformity.
  — Dallas News, 28 Sep. 2022
• And despair by the body politic, whose common sense is at odds with the anxious conformity of those in power.
  — Kevin Warsh, WSJ, 12 Dec. 2021
• Outliers who struggle to find their place in a world of conformity and structure.
  — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 25 Aug. 2022
• Or maybe, for the masses, conformity’s pull will remain too strong.
  — Star Tribune, 1 Aug. 2020
• Kant believed that both were out of conformity with reason, and Mr. Pinker sees no grounds to disagree.
  — Yoram Hazony, WSJ, 6 Apr. 2018
• This was in conformity with the terms of the mandate and was arguably more restrictive than in South Africa itself.
  — Paul Nugent, Quartz, 13 Mar. 2021
• Once launched off the rails of conformity, Jane is a walking cataclysm.
  — Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2021
• Tax conformity requires a two-thirds vote in the Legislature to pass, so the pressure is on.
  — Laurel Rosenhall, The Mercury News, 14 June 2019
• Where the Village gets its name is left unexplained, though it’s presumably meant to convey a sense of conformity.
  — Idrees Kahloon, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2024
• On one hand, students want freedom of expression and identity, and on the other hand, schools expect a level of modesty and conformity.
  — Hannah Nwoko, Parents, 13 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024