Example sentences for: parlance

How can you use “parlance” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In aviation parlance, to hold some action always means to stop what you are doing and thus to go around in a landing situation; but in ordinary English hold can also mean to continue what you are doing and thus to land in such a situation.

  • ' To shift fields: art movements, in particular, often identify themselves through the addition of a syllable to a word in common parlance.

  • In OOP parlance, for instance, BioD icons and arrow objects would 'know' how to draw themselves, 'inherit' functional and graphical properties from 'parent' icons and arrows, and know how to link to each other.

  • In Southern parlance, a bait ment more than enough.

  • There is rather a double standard, first the so-called American Standard that textbooks try to inculcate, the dignified parlance of discourse, and then the related but divergent American Wit, the standard of ingenuity, which trafficks freely in analogy, pun, and portmanteau.


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