How to Use pro forma in a Sentence

pro forma

adjective
  • The meeting was strictly pro forma, since the decision had already been made.
  • The failure mode is not that a good pro forma ignores these items.
    — Tony Julianelle, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
  • Fall in love with your pro forma and tighten up your business plan.
    — Daniel Kodsi, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2021
  • Both were sworn in the very next day … during pro forma sessions!
    — Mark Z. Barabak, Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Both were sworn in the very next day … during pro forma sessions!
    — Mark Z. Barabak, Twin Cities, 15 Oct. 2025
  • There’s nothing pro forma about the way the album plays out from song to song.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 4 Apr. 2025
  • Our new stores are performing above pro forma.
    — Hadley Hitson, Nashville Tennessean, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The House will convene at noon for a pro forma session.
    — Jared Gans, The Hill, 10 Nov. 2025
  • The Senate will hold a pro forma session at noon.
    — Kristina Karisch, The Hill, 26 Aug. 2025
  • The House will meet on Friday at noon for a pro forma session.
    — Emily Brooks, The Hill, 25 Dec. 2024
  • How did pro forma sports programming come to have that kind of cultural pull?
    — Elena Bergeron, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2023
  • On a pro forma basis, group sales grew 23% year-on-year in Q3.
    — Emily Forkan, Vogue, 7 May 2026
  • Our armed guard peeled off at the first desert rest stop, his presence seem ingly largely pro forma.
    — Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country, 18 Sep. 2014
  • The House and Senate will hold pro forma sessions.
    — The Hill Staff, The Hill, 25 Nov. 2025
  • In that year, both parties held pro forma primaries with strong frontrunners.
    — David Weigel, Washington Post, 23 May 2018
  • What looked like a pro forma celebrity breakup, however, was anything but.
    — Suzy Expositostaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Yet there can be something a little wiggly and pro forma about this kind of gratitude.
    — Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 26 Nov. 2024
  • The Senate will meet on Thursday at noon for a pro forma session.
    — Kristina Karisch, The Hill, 31 Dec. 2024
  • The Senate will hold a pro forma session at noon on Thursday.
    — Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Resident turnover is the steady leak a credible pro forma has to model.
    — Tony Julianelle, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
  • The Senate will hold a pro forma session at noon on Tuesday.
    — Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 25 Aug. 2025
  • The next pro forma session in the House is scheduled for Wednesday.
    — Emily Brooks, The Hill, 7 Oct. 2025
  • But none have risen above the $10 pro forma share price used by SPACs.
    — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 16 Sep. 2022
  • The former was pro forma; the latter sounds like someone who has spent a lot of time trying to make peace with what’s happened.
    — Cameron Goodnight, baltimoresun.com, 13 Aug. 2021
  • All this might have seemed relatively pro forma in the hands of less skilled animators.
    — Justin Chang, latimes.com, 30 Nov. 2017
  • The House is also set to meet later Thursday for a pro forma session.
    — Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 1 Apr. 2026
  • The Senate is scheduled for a pro forma session Monday, but no vote has been set.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Apr. 2020
  • But a vote in the Senate could come as soon as Thursday, when the chamber will hold a pro forma session.
    — Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Because of that deal, the quarterly numbers were compared with the prior year on a pro forma basis.
    — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 25 Feb. 2026
  • That’s the next time the House, which is on break for the holidays, is scheduled to meet for a routine pro forma session.
    — Lisa Mascaro, Fortune, 28 Dec. 2022

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