Example sentences for: parlance

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

  • In postal parlance, we would say that the discount equals 100 percent of the cost avoidance at the margin, or that the passthrough of the avoidance is 100 percent.

  • 22 In postal parlance, editorial is defined as material that is not advertising.

  • Thus, in modern parlance, when a person goes off half cocked (or at half cock ), he or she is not in control of the situation.

  • 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.

  • Other folks say that an operating system is just the core functionality (or in computer parlance, the kernel) necessary to run the chips in your machine.


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