How to Use normalcy in a Sentence

normalcy

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  • Let's hope for an end to the war and a return to normalcy.
  • For a moment, at least, there's a sense of normalcy in the U.S.
    — Steve Peoples, ajc, 14 Nov. 2022
  • This battle will have a bit of normalcy to it that the last one didn’t.
    — Stephen Means, cleveland, 1 Feb. 2023
  • His return to normalcy would have to wait a bit longer.
    — Adam Sella, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2024
  • At the time, though, track was a taste of normalcy, even when his father went to prison for two years.
    — Greg McKenna, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2023
  • Even amid the 16-month-old war in Ukraine, the Kremlin has been focused on normalcy at home.
    — Anton Troianovski, New York Times, 25 June 2023
  • My landlady brings me a pot of borscht to help create a sense of normalcy.
    — CNN, 18 Feb. 2023
  • Then came the major disruptions of the pandemic and the crawl back to normalcy.
    — Lawrence Specker | Lspecker@al.com, al, 13 Aug. 2023
  • Despite the devastating event, Grace was able to feel a sense of normalcy at Swift’s show the next day, wearing the dress saved from the fire.
    — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 9 June 2023
  • So just trying to keep some level of normalcy for them.
    — Dave Quinn, Peoplemag, 23 June 2023
  • UConn women’s basketball was on the cusp of getting a sense of normalcy back.
    — Lila Bromberg, Hartford Courant, 3 Jan. 2023
  • To many, this means shattering the relative sense of normalcy that has taken hold in cities far from the front line.
    — Constant Méheut, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2023
  • There are a couple of reasons to vote for Swift/Kelce besides normalcy.
    — Joe Soucheray, Twin Cities, 3 Feb. 2024
  • By Wednesday some sense of normalcy was returning to the mid-Atlantic states.
    — Frederick N. Rasmussen, Baltimore Sun, 23 Jan. 2024
  • Horvath said those who have experienced so much loss are ready to get back to some sense of normalcy.
    — Erica Van Buren, Sun Sentinel, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Most of all, the drug’s approval has given so many young people with alopecia areata a sense of normalcy back.
    — Emily Nadal, Parents, 18 July 2023
  • An unusual heat wave breaks, a storm passes, and a sense of normalcy returns.
    — Jacob Turcotte, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 July 2023
  • The very fact baseball is being played brings a sense of normalcy and lifts the spirits of the community, Hamman added.
    — Rich Fahey, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Feb. 2023
  • For a year that held promise of a return to normalcy, 2022 threw plenty of curve balls at the American consumer.
    — Alicia Wallace, CNN, 28 Dec. 2022
  • By the time last year’s girls basketball season was over, it almost could have been called a return to normalcy.
    — Joe Magill, cleveland, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Children in Gaza are coping with the trauma of life in a war zone, along with the sadness of losing family, friends and any sense of normalcy.
    — Sarah Ferguson, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Schultz predicts that the end of the zero-Covid policy is a step toward normalcy in the country, one that bodes well for Starbucks' sales.
    — Clare Duffy, CNN, 2 Feb. 2023
  • As Maya's family tried to keep some normalcy for the sake of the children, Richard was watching Larry during the party.
    — Jonathan Vigliotti, CBS News, 22 July 2023
  • But the huge China market is still struggling for normalcy.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 20 June 2023
  • Lue called himself optimistic the stars will return during the road trip and bring some semblance of normalcy with them.
    — Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2022
  • It’s been very important to the star to protect her kids’ privacy and sense of normalcy, no matter her level of fame.
    — Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 15 Aug. 2023
  • The witness is the one who holds the line of reality, identifying and refusing the lie of normalcy.
    — Seyward Darby, Longreads, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Television goes on this fall with some pretense of normalcy.
    — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Children splashed around in the water and played in the sand while fishermen cast their nets into the sea -- a fleeting return to normalcy after weeks of fighting.
    — Compiled Bydemocrat-Gazette Stafffrom Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 28 Nov. 2023
  • The crowd was so massive that normalcy returned quickly, with some unsure what had happened.
    — Heather Hollingsworth, arkansasonline.com, 16 Feb. 2024

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