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
• So the inclusion of the revenge dress marks a departure from the norm on the show.
  — Roxanne Adamiyatt, Town & Country, 26 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.
  — Sadie Bell, Peoplemag, 6 Dec. 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
• 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
• 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
• Cassel says taking on the musketeer role ticked his box of working on productions that break with norms, even if the film is an adaptation of the French classic by Alexandre Dumas.
  — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 25 Oct. 2024
• Should she be elected, Harris may choose to continue her efforts to shape responsible norms of behavior in space and organize oversight over the space industry.
  — Thomas G. Roberts, The Conversation, 23 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024