conform

Definition:
To behave and think in the same way as most other people in a group.
To obey a rule, law, etc.
Be similar, be in line with.
Compliance.

Use 'conform' in a sentence:

• 1. Essays must conform to MLA standards.
• 2. Many children who can't or don't conform are bullied.
• 3. Does your electric blanket conform to BS 3456?
• 4. There is considerable pressure on teenagers to conform.
• 5. The two scientists stopped working together because their theories did not conform.
• 6. It did not conform to the usual stereotype of an industrial city.
• 7. The Night Rider lamp has been designed to conform to new British Standard safety requirements.
• 8. The building does not conform with safety regulations.
• 9. There is a great deal of pressure on young people to conform.
• 10. He refused to conform to the local customs.
• 11. This sketch does not conform with the specifications.
• 12. A nearly ideal solution like benzene-toluene shows a vapor-pressure curve that conforms very closely to the plot.
• 13. Relations of production must conform to the level of productive forces.
• 14. Taxis must conform to the rigorous standards laid down by the police.
• 15. He did not feel obliged to conform to the rules that applied to ordinary men.
• 16. I just do it to conform.
• 17. They want me to conform, to be lily-white.
• 18. The lamp has been designed to conform to new safety standards.
• 19. You must conform to the school rules or leave the school.
• 20. Her ideas do not conform with mine.
• 21. Like most 'peacetime wars' it did not conform to preconceived ideas.
• 22. The couple idea is certainly oversold. There's so much pressure to become a couple that people feel failure if they don't conform.
• 23. I am well aware that we all conform to one stereotype or another.
• 24. We conformed with social and family expectations.
• 25. His way of life conforms to his income.
• 26. Perhaps intolerant people are so set in their ways that they find it easier to ignore anything that might not conform to their limited view of life.
• 27. He is committed by his biology not to conform, and herein lies the paramount reason for the awful tension he experiences today in relation to society.
• 28. There is great pressure on schoolchildren to conform.
• 29. The funeral arrangements conform to the principle of simplicity.
• 30. He doesn't conform to the usual stereotype of the businessman with a dark suit and briefcase.
• 31. These are men whose masculinity does not conform to stereotypical images of the unfeeling male.
• 32. XSocket binaries are now OSGi conform.
• 33. A customer organization can define its data model and tender for competing solutions that conform to its interfaces and meet its requirements.
• 34. His behaviour doesn't conform to the customs of society.
• 35. Now in a way, Painlevé's films conform to norms of the 20s and 30s, that is, they don't fit very neatly into the categories we use to classify films today.
• 36. The meat market can continue only if it is radically overhauled to conform with strict European standards.
• 37. The conflict between the urge for self-expression and the pressure to conform is a central one for her.
• 38. Many children who can't or don't conform are often bullied.
• 39. The packaging does not conform to EU rules.
• 40. This mark signifies that the products conform to an approved standard.
• 41. When storing Renaissance oil paintings, museums conform to standards that call for careful control of the surrounding temperature and humidity, with variations confined within narrow margins.