How to Use deviance in a Sentence

deviance

noun
  • Schools in the country will also remain open, a deviance from the first round of quarantines.
    — Spencer Neale, Washington Examiner, 6 Nov. 2020
  • For all the deviance, the play's ambitions remain rooted to the study of its characters.
    — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 1 July 2018
  • Until then, the raw meat boys will see themselves as outsiders, and outsiders breed deviance.
    — Luke Winkie, Bon Appétit, 31 Aug. 2022
  • Oleksiy Makeev, Ukraine’s ambassador to Germany was also there, and raised his fist in deviance when the camera panned to him.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Feb. 2023
  • This dynamic also highlights the role of the audience in constructing the idea of deviance.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Gender traitors and rebels are hanged on the wall, a continual threat that any deviance from Gilead will not be tolerated.
    — refinery29.com, 9 May 2018
  • She's made to watch a weird short film about deviance, which happens to star Moose and Kevin as two young men who forgo socializing with women to spend time alone together.
    — Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 29 Mar. 2018
  • That gave researchers a chance to see whether any deviance from vaccination schedules or logistics issues for the shot, which has to be stored frozen, would change outcomes.
    — Jason Gale, Fortune, 25 Feb. 2021
  • These efforts helped mainstream the idea working on one's physique was a sign of normal male sexuality, not deviance.
    — Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, CNN, 14 Dec. 2021
  • One study found that people littered in their work environments as an act of deviance against their employer.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 8 Apr. 2023
  • The film’s deviance amounts to little more than a few campy in-jokes: when the villain breaks into Ana and Christian's penthouse, a member of their security detail pins him down and laments her lack of restraints.
    — Leah Pickett, Chicago Reader, 9 Feb. 2018
  • Hartman looks at women who have been narrated in terms of deviance and deprivation, and asks us to see their lives as experiments in new kinds of freedom and loving.
    — New York Times, 19 Sep. 2019
  • Early urban reformers, such as Jacob Riis and Jane Addams in the first decades of the twentieth century, were quick to link urban blight and social deviance.
    — Max Holleran, The New Republic, 3 Dec. 2020
  • Any minor deviance from the manager’s strategy will be perceived as a personal attack and will be met with punishment.
    — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2022
  • The show tells the story of a world-famous televangelist family with a long tradition of deviance, greed and charitable work.
    — Joe Otterson, Variety, 27 June 2022
  • The show tells the story of a world-famous televangelist family with a long tradition of deviance, greed and charitable work.
    — Joe Otterson, Variety, 27 June 2022
  • The show tells the story of a world-famous televangelist family with a long tradition of deviance, greed and charitable work.
    — Joe Otterson, Variety, 27 June 2022
  • The show tells the story of a world-famous televangelist family with a long tradition of deviance, greed and charitable work.
    — Joe Otterson, Variety, 27 June 2022
  • The show tells the story of a world-famous televangelist family with a long tradition of deviance, greed and charitable work.
    — Joe Otterson, Variety, 27 June 2022
  • The show tells the story of a world-famous televangelist family with a long tradition of deviance, greed and charitable work.
    — Joe Otterson, Variety, 25 Jan. 2022
  • The show tells the story of a world-famous televangelist family with a long tradition of deviance, greed and charitable work.
    — Joe Otterson, Variety, 27 June 2022
  • The singer’s life and music were shaped by the political upheaval around him, yet his image has often been softened into a digestible symbol of social deviance to college-age people.
    — Lawrence Burney, Vulture, 28 Mar. 2024
  • A barricade of deviance and grit kept much of the straight world out, protecting the neighborhood’s unconventional character.
    — Jeremiah Moss, Longreads, 24 July 2017
  • Her latest veers more toward the comic camp, exploring raunchy proclivities and unbelievable deviances in a trailer park of the near future.
    — Atlanta Life, ajc, 18 May 2017
  • Marijuana figures sharply in those stereotypes, feeding myths of black social deviance.
    — Syreeta McFadden, Rolling Stone, 1 July 2021
  • Instead, partly by lifting the pressure of secrecy and diminishing the feeling of deviance, the talk will loosen the hold of hallucinations and, crucially, the grip of isolation.
    — New York Times, 17 May 2022
  • For thousands of years, mental illness could only be explained by supernatural forces or moral deviance.
    — Celia Ford, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
  • Sloman, who had a master’s degree in deviance and criminology from the University of Wisconsin, had begun his time on the tour reporting for Rolling Stone.
    — Robert Greenfield, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Apr. 2023
  • The reason reality shows about hoarding flourished a decade ago, the critic Scott Herring has argued, is that hoarding was a special case in which the larger culture tipped into definable deviance.
    — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 15 Sep. 2020
  • The reason reality shows about hoarding flourished a decade ago, the critic Scott Herring has argued, is that hoarding was a special case in which the larger culture tipped into definable deviance.
    — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper’s Magazine , 7 Dec. 2021

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