Example sentences for: parlance

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

  • They are broadly of two kinds: those in which the wrong word is accentuated and those in which the pause is wrongly positioned (or perhaps, in technical parlance, examples of faulty tonicity and faulty tonality, respectively).

  • Take the verb cut, which in common ranch parlance has two meanings, the first as stated above being `castrate.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.


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