Example Sentences

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“Still, he sees tourism, but also normalness, as his target.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 1, 2026

“What turned me on about her was her humanity and her normalness, how broken in the real world she is and how that bleeds into this thriller.”

From New York Times • Jun. 27, 2023

What I learned: 1. how to have an eating disorder and 2. if I ever stopped dancing, I would shrivel into another insignificant speck of normalness in the large universe of horribly normal non-dancers.

From Washington Post • Aug. 18, 2021

It helps them reintegrate and move back into that community and feel that normalness a lot of them are looking for.”

From Washington Times • Mar. 7, 2018

Perhaps it was Obinze s mother s tone, the evenness of it, the normalness of it.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie