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How to use parlance in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word parlance? Here are some examples.

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In ordinary parlance, a conspiracy theory describes something preposterous or paranoid.
Then there are folks like these two, who in demographic parlance are baby boomers turned empty nesters.
Each graph stood for a whole word, and the writing was therefore logographic, or in less common parlance, lexigraphic.
Systems of this kind are referred to as telefacsimile systems in present-day parlance.
But, in medical parlance, it is the body's response to a situation or an environment that is unwelcome, unwarranted, unconquerable and unplanned.
It's a neat theatrical trick that sees us introduced to the intentionally harsh vulgarisms of sexual parlance.
By which he meant in modern parlance that Americans shared a common culture which made republican government possible.
More crucially, who decided that these words could be used in common parlance without explanation?
Perhaps in ordinary parlance this is disclosure of confidential information in the interests of the bank.
Both are seeds, in the language of botany or natural history, but not in commerce nor in common parlance.
I am all for American regional cookery and the trappings of taste, custom, and parlance that go with each.
That win had to be shared because, in cricketing parlance, bad light stopped play at Valderrama.
What other phrases from popular TV shows can you think of that have slipped into common parlance?
However, hearing Irish as it is spoken makes you realise how polluted and Anglofied it has become in common parlance.
Freudian language has seeped into common parlance like that of no other writer since Shakespeare.
In modern parlance this word quickly conjures up notions of government regulation and regulated industries.
It is true that these are terms of public parlance, rather than of popular speech.
In common academic parlance, a removal from the classroom, even if with full pay, is a suspension.
Is there a justification for retaining the word in literature from the past, when its use would have reflected common parlance?
It has, in the parlance of sport, been a steep learning curve for the Scottish squad, but one which is still climbable.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Here the pompous antithesis is evidently meant to caricature the peculiar euphuistic sentence of court parlance.
The final numbers of this second and closing part form what is known in theatrical parlance as the clou of the drama.
Mary of Magdala had been, according to the parlance of the age, possessed with seven devils.
In that time he colored the parlance of the English-speaking race, and formed upon himself every minor talent attempting fiction.
They all went to church Sabbath morning, in the old Puritan parlance.
A combe, in west of England parlance, is a deep, ravinelike valley.
At Buena Vista he won laurels of glory, in the parlance of the soldier.
Homer plessy was, in the now antiquated parlance of the times, an octoroon, being one-eighth black and seven-eighths white.
A term singularly, but very often, misapplied in parlance for orbit.
At King William Island, in the Admiralties, Kwaque had made, in the parlance of the South Pacific, a pier-head jump.
In common parlance men speak of those whom they honour and love as 'coming first' with them.
A lot of hard work had gone into EITC before her arrival, but she transformed the charity from, in footy parlance, mid-table plodders to Champions League winners.
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