Example Sentences

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Ultimately, D.C. has conformed to the trend and is now actually reducing crime.

From Slate • Aug. 13, 2025

“Asbury has conformed into this artsy town, but tradition is tradition! This is art, and I wouldn’t take my child’s picture in front of this tree. Can’t we just have our traditional tree?”

From Seattle Times • Nov. 29, 2021

Then-vice presidential candidate Mike Pence told CNN he was “very confident that this business, like the other Trump businesses, has conformed to the laws of this country”.

From The Guardian • Feb. 13, 2017

In the context of a summer this Test has conformed to expectation by turning out as precisely no-one could predict.

From BBC • Jul. 30, 2015

It is the striving of the finite to reach the Infinite. 67In human history art, no less than languages, has conformed to the theory of evolution.

From The Head Voice and Other Problems Practical Talks on Singing by Clippinger, D. A. (David Alva)