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.

Pinchot was a rich man who spent his life advocating for places where "the little man," in his parlance, would be king.

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.

Backed by Gary Haase on bass and Buddy Williams on drums, Mr. Coleman is taking his act -- in his parlance, a saucy, sentimental journey for the ages -- to Feinstein's at the Regency.

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 professional parlance, his sexual orientation was gay, but his sexual identity — the way he saw himself, and the way he wanted to be seen — was as a straight man.

He refers to his new job in the parlance of his long-ago career as a newspaper reporter: he is "on assignment in Washington".