Example sentences for: parochial

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

  • I have always found the Globe to be somewhat dull and parochial, and I would know what was playing at the New York nabes, rather than in Boston.

  • But my real gratitude is for what Yates' example teaches: that politicians aren't required to preen and pander or to speak only for the parochial interests of their districts.

  • Neglect, conquest, and isolation, however, had taken their toll, and at first independent Ireland was characterized by a parochial and narrow-minded approach to affairs, and Dublin was content to let its Georgian heritage decay.

  • Judge Oliver ruled Monday that giving children tax-financed vouchers to attend that city's parochial schools violated the Constitution's separation of church and state.

  • $2,000 would pay tuition only at some Catholic parochial schools.


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