STANDARDIZE in a Sentence

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210 example sentences for STANDARDIZE, such as:
1. There was no standard to judge them by.
2. Air bags are a standard feature in most new cars.
3. The pound is the standard unit of money in Britain.
4. The act lays down a minimum standard for air quality.
5. All the patients were interviewed according to a standard formula.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of STANDARDIZE
standardize
 v.  cause to conform to standard or norm
 v.  evaluate by comparing with a standard
Classic Sentence: (59 in 4 pages)
1  Apparently the place succeeded in satisfying him, and, to tell the truth, it was at least up to the usual standard of our provincial capitals.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER I
2  A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising and almost hating himself at certain moments.
Notes from the Underground By Fyodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: I
3  On the contrary, the characteristics of our "romantics" are absolutely and directly opposed to the transcendental European type, and no European standard can be applied to them.
Notes from the Underground By Fyodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: I
4  One could already see the soldiers' shaggy caps, distinguish the officers from the men, and see the standard flapping against its staff.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XVIII
5  But before he had finished speaking, Prince Andrew, feeling tears of shame and anger choking him, had already leapt from his horse and run to the standard.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XVI
6  Prince Andrew again seized the standard and, dragging it by the staff, ran on with the battalion.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XVI
7  One had saved a standard, another had killed five Frenchmen, a third had loaded five cannon singlehanded.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II
8  And it occurs to no one that to admit a greatness not commensurable with the standard of right and wrong is merely to admit one's own nothingness and immeasurable meanness.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER XVIII
9  For us with the standard of good and evil given us by Christ, no human actions are incommensurable.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER XVIII
10  He could not have said by what standard he judged what he should or should not do, but the standard was quite firm and definite in his own mind.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER VII
11  There was no standard to judge them by.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
12  She did not stop to think that Ellen's ordered world was gone and a brutal world had taken its place, a world wherein every standard, every value had changed.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
13  No, it did not occur to Melanie that people rallied round her as round a worn and loved standard.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
14  That's the next stage: the desire to imply that one has been to Europe, and has a standard.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
15  Monsieur Ratignolle stared a little, and turned to ask Mademoiselle Reisz if she considered the symphony concerts up to the standard which had been set the previous winter.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXX
Example Sentence: (151 in 11 pages)
1  Spain's biggest fashion retailers have bowed to Government pressure to standardize their sizes.
2  An issue that arises with IT practitioners is whether to standardize their infrastructure and applications, and if so, to what degree.
3  As the world becomes more complex, some things do, of course, standardize and globalize.
4  All the patients were interviewed according to a standard formula.
5  Students who achieve an acceptable standard will progress to degree studies.
6  Sometimes, that standard is quite difficult, if not impossible, to achieve.
7  The act lays down a minimum standard for air quality.
8  This boom in adult education, in turn, helps to raise the intellectual standard of the whole country.
9  There is no general agreement on a standard definition of intelligence.
10  Air bags are a standard feature in most new cars.
11  Other insurers will allow you to bolt on critical illness cover to standard life cover.
12  They wore the standard uniform of the well-to-do American out of office hours.
13  The pound is the standard unit of money in Britain.
14  The metre is the standard unit for measuring length in the SI system.
15  One unit of alcohol is equal to half a pint of beer or a standard measure of spirits.