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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:

' Moreover, some of the older students addressed by the priest in the movie are past childhood, though in priestly parlance anyone, even a nonagenarian, may be called a child.
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.
22 In postal parlance, editorial is defined as material that is not advertising.
Safire dismisses the exculpatory remarks by Hubbell concerning Hillary's innocence, etc. as what FBI parlance calls "tickling the wire"--producing self-serving statements because you know you are being overheard.
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.