Sentence examples for everyday parlance from inspiring English sources

Over the decades, many names have passed into everyday parlance.

In everyday parlance, to speak of female genitals is impolite, if not shameful.

In everyday parlance ("What the hell are you doing?"), it is merely a bark, not a place.

His words live on in everyday parlance – no matter one's station, religion or occupation, everyone in Iran knows at least a handful of Rumi's poems by heart.

Although its precise origins remain mired in debate, the fairly recent introduction of the term "football hipster" into everyday parlance continues to amuse.

The term 'prima donna' can be used to mean two things: in everyday parlance, it is a woman inclined towards hubris; in the world of opera, it simply describes a performance's leading lady.

It was before the term "embedding" was coined by the Pentagon and became part of everyday journalistic parlance and practice.

Thus, in everyday political parlance, Gingrich's declarations about the end of the welfare state seem to have a narrow reference.

DePaola's text mixes everyday preschool parlance (" 'We were in the same tree,' said the brown bird") with the more formal language of a Sunday-school lesson ("Glory to God in the highest/And on earth peace to men of good will"), a combination that feels right for this kind of book.

In the way that regular people use the parlance of cinema to make everyday life worthy of the big screen ("It was so romantic/beautiful/ exciting/scary, it was like being in/better than a movie!"), Hollywood people borrow images from real life to give legitimacy to their fantasy-driven existences.

In everyday parlance, this means that the more users there are on a social network, the more attractive it will be to people who are contemplating joining.