How to Use the norm in a Sentence

the norm

noun
  • Now the idea is to make this the norm.
    — Joe Rexrode, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2026
  • None of this was outside the norm.
    — Natalie Eilbert, jsonline.com, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Fan protests have become the norm.
    — Daniel Taylor, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2026
  • But it was still far improved from the norm.
    — Tottenham Hotspur, New York Times, 3 May 2026
  • That’s going to be the norm from here on out.
    — Matthew Fairburn, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2026
  • My other friend is tired, as this is now the norm.
    — Eric Thomas, Sun Sentinel, 15 Feb. 2026
  • That’s been the norm for the past couple of decades.
    — David Moin, Footwear News, 22 Dec. 2025
  • Best-of-five or -seven brackets are the norm.
    — Sheldon H. Jacobson, Chicago Tribune, 29 Aug. 2025
  • In the years ahead, mild days will become less of the norm.
    — Rory Linnane, jsonline.com, 26 Feb. 2026
  • My songs were very, very quirky compared to the norm on those records.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 15 Mar. 2026
  • That could be the norm this season for the Saints.
    — Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Sep. 2025
  • None of us are down here very long, so why can’t kindness be the norm?
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 20 July 2024
  • That’s the norm for a Thursday night game though.
    — Omar Kelly updated October 31, Miami Herald, 31 Oct. 2025
  • That level of reading is far from the norm.
    — Literary Hub, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Is 20% still the norm for tipping?
    — Betty Lin-Fisher, USA Today, 24 June 2026
  • But coming back over and over has become the norm.
    — Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Our kids grew up in a house where arguments were the norm.
    — R. Eric Thomas, Chicago Tribune, 12 Apr. 2026
  • Artists are so much about challenging the norm.
    — Sophie Dodd, PEOPLE, 21 Dec. 2025
  • One where overdressing used to be the norm.
    — José Criales-Unzueta, Vanity Fair, 19 Feb. 2026
  • But don’t be fooled into thinking that’s the norm.
    — Jessica Coacci, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Per the norm, release dates are subject to change.
    — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 23 May 2026
  • However, that doesn’t mean this should be the norm.
    — Ellen O’Brien, SELF, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Within a few decades, that amount of smoke could become the norm.
    — Alejandra Borunda, NPR, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Since its debut, the norm is now twelve to fourteen months.
    — Jon McNeill, Big Think, 25 Mar. 2026
  • This should be the norm, not the exception.
    — Laura Williamson, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2026
  • While there are exceptions, this is the norm.
    — Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 12 Apr. 2026
  • True life-long learning will become the norm.
    — Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
  • Upsets are now the norm in April and May.
    — Lev Akabas, Sportico.com, 6 May 2026
  • This was the norm — this kind of coldness, this kind of strangeness.
    — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 7 Mar. 2025
  • Rapid learning and skill building the norm.
    — Rachel Wells, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025

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