Example sentences for: parochial

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

  • The Senate education bill, reports the LAT , is almost certain to draw a Clinton veto for such provisions as an IRA-style tax break for private and parochial school tuition, blocking national testing and allowing states to spend federal education funds virtually any way they choose.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Foreign magazines sound so deliciously trivial, so delightfully parochial.

  • Emphasizing the global realities of overexpansion thus becomes a way for the Big Three to serve their own interests without seeming parochial.


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