Example sentences for: parochial

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

  • 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.

  • Almost every city in America has a publication like this, a paper that is parochial in the best possible way.

  • A Federal judge ruled that the program's publicly financed scholarships to parochial schools violate the separation of church and state.

  • Years ago, while on the Parochial Church Council, the owner of a cottage adjacent to the churchyard, had problems with the church wall bulging onto her path.

  • Shaw, on the hand, had a strangely static understanding of language: he was downright parochial and more than a little snobbish about spoken English and how an alphabet should standardize it.


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