Sentence examples for conform from inspiring English sources

The word 'conform' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use 'conform' to describe when someone or something follows a set of accepted standards or practices. For example: "The company's service must conform to the industry standards."

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conform

verb

To act in accordance with expectations; to behave in the manner of others, especially as a result of social pressure.

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Interest rate cut to 0.8% a day and other costs reduced to conform with a legal cap on costs coming into force on 2 January 2015.

The almost impossible task of calculating the money generated by the oldest profession is being undertaken to conform with a European edict demanding that member states declare the percentage of GDP derived from illegal activities such as the sex trade, drug and people trafficking and contraband.

These titans, and those who surround them, overwhelmingly and stubbornly refuse to conform to the simple premise of triumphant good versus vanquished evil.

If the Queen's observed behaviour does not always conform with the more disarming stage and film depictions, the latter are now so widely regarded as authentic, the reporting of the Windsor strike suggests, that this hardly matters.

In 1964 it was already 11 years old and its pilot, Jerrie Mock, appeared to conform to conservative stereotypes of the era, as an affluent, white, middle-class American woman, just over seven stone, and 5ft tall.

You come to learn that these stories must conform to a basic principle: make the US and the west look bad.

Brentford's Warburton, a former City financier, would relish sticking two fingers up – metaphorically of course – at a board that has decreed he will be replaced with imported continental intellect willing to conform to a "mathematical modelling" system this summer.

She said those who had given testimony also accused the nuns of locking them in cupboards and threatening to transfer them to an adult mental hospital at Muckamore Abbey. in Co Antrim, if they did not conform.

When Ratmansky first brought his proteges Natalia Osipova and Ivan Vasiliev – a virtuosic partnership – into the company, he met with resistance; their styles and physiques did not conform to company type.

Two-spirit people were often forced, either by government officials, Christian missionaries or their own community, to conform to standard gender roles.

In short, she's saying: "Cover up and conform!" This must be a confusing message for the president's daughters, who are hardly going out on a limb in terms of either flesh-flashing or general weirdness: "What?

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