Example sentences for: parochial

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

  • I understand his premise that we should get along, but my comments as a "meddie" will be much more parochial.

  • News and Time gushed about "Clintonism," the Standard offers its own definition (pegged to the State of the Union): "Clintonism transforms your most parochial worries into matters of state," dealing with picayune issues rather than genuine ones.

  • Opponents of the first-in-the-nation plan--which subsidizes private or parochial school tuition for kids in "failing" public schools who choose to transfer--contend that it violates church-state boundaries.

  • The program lets children attend parochial schools using public money.

  • 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.


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