Sentence examples for in a parlance from inspiring English sources

Also, he speaks in a parlance more or less recognizable as humanoid, whereas Legolas doesn't so much chat or make observations as recite appallingly bad poetry while Gimli, for his part, makes the prospect of Billy Connolly in drag look tasteful with a persistently cringe-worthy archetyping of the Scots (each "laddie" is another nail in the coffin of movie magic).

The roof in the concept, a word which in automotive parlance means "prototype," also featured a glass sunroof.

I don't find him despicable but, rather, in an earlier parlance, unevolved.

In fact, Vallejo did have a steady boyfriend — a pololo, in Chilean parlance — a Cuban who moved to Chile as a teenager.

Carol was suddenly a widow: in news parlance, "an incomplete line of type," as she wistfully notes.

Act I now has, in theater parlance, a curtain: a cliffhanging turn of events to draw audiences back after intermission.

Howard Dean will always be considered an outsider, or in Vermont parlance, a flatlander.

In mathematical parlance: a set consisting of a geometrical point is a measure zero set.

In VC parlance, a "down" round is a financing round with a lower share price than the previous round.

The typical ARM, a "5/1" in industry parlance, gives a lower "teaser" rate upfront in exchange for a rate that adjusts annually after five years.

In common parlance, a myth is a story about gods or otherworldly beings.