Definition: 1. To behave and think in the same way as most other people in a group. 2. To obey a rule, law, etc. 3. Be similar, be in line with. 4. 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.
