Sentence examples for * his parlance from inspiring English sources

Mr. Villanova, 61, used to work Woodhaven's streets as a city garbage collector - a "pickup man" in his parlance.

First, the human creature ("man" in his parlance), even though created in the image of God, is not perfect.

Narrative art, in his parlance, is the more literal: art that simply tells a story, like a film or book (or a newspaper article).

Mr. Sheehan attributed the progress partly to the administration's determination to combat terrorism by limiting the number of places, or, in his parlance, "swamps," where terrorists can seek refuge because government control is weak or governments themselves are sympathetic.

Meanwhile David Cameron, the Tory leader, says that, opposed as he is to the Lisbon treaty that creates the post, he thinks the EU shouldn't have a president but if it must, the role should be (in his parlance) "chairmanic", and not "all-singing, all-dancing, all-acting".

The next week, after an Aerobox class, which complements the Aeroimpact class with skipping rope and shadowboxing, Teresa Misagal, 44, a restaurant manager who lives in Williamsburg, told me that her 14 years of training with Mr. Olajide had, in his parlance, "sleekified" her.

He was 48, not particularly flush, to borrow from his betting parlance, and waiting for a call to revive his fortunes, but it never came.

(Lest anyone misinterpret the fictional geography of the block, he clarified that he does not live in the Jeffersons' house. Rather, in his own parlance, "I'm that Italian family," the Lorenzos, who lived next door to the Bunkers).

As both film and book show, Dury was, in his own parlance, "a tricky customer", by turns needy, wilful and truculent and possessed of a savage wit that could regularly reduce those closest to him to tears.

In the musty parlance of his heritage, he was being "called to service".

FIRST, Kevin Garnett got game, in the parlance of his sport, basketball.