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Example sentences for: parlance

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

He had, in today's parlance, paid his dues.
In American theater parlance, the term gag is used frequently to differentiate funny lines in a movie script or stage comedy from mere jokes that are exchanged indiscriminately in everyday life.
In Southern parlance, a bait ment more than enough.
The popular parlance conflates nerd with nebbish . But the overlap between the two concepts is not large, more on the order of this:
Hard currencies aren't pegged to metals any longer, but in casual political and macroeconomic parlance, soft-money people are those who take an optimistic and permissive attitude toward control of the money supply, and hard-money people are those who take a grouchy and restrictive one.