Example sentences for: normalcy

How can you use “normalcy” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • "If you go back far enough, I guarantee that the defenders of cultural normalcy were terrified by the invention of the toaster ," retorts Joel Achenbach on the Washington Post Web site.

  • Normalcy, to which John the memoirist's father is doomed and against which his mother is his own last bastion, must be avoided at all costs.

  • It was part of a total package that included not only the golden shiksas but their brothers ("engaging, good-natured, confident, clean, swift, and powerful halfbacks"), their fathers ("men with white hair and deep voices"), their mothers who never whined or hectored, their curtained, fireplaced houses, their small noses, their lack of constant nagging worry--in short, the normalcy and confidence that go along with belonging, with being on the inside.

  • melon, dimpled by the forceps mark of his accident or whatever extracted him from normalcy, dipped him in the searing, crushing waters of disfigurement and then returned himto the world to fill it with the childish

  • Time cannot wither, nor custom stale, her infinite normalcy.


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