Sentence examples for normal parlance from inspiring English sources

Is it significant in terms of statistics, but insignificant in normal parlance, that is, less than 1%?

The only type of knife that is excluded from this definition is a "folding pocketknife", a penknife in normal parlance, with a blade of three inches or less.

Writing for herself and her eight colleagues, Justice Sonia Sotomayor held that "the ordinary meaning of the word ['individual'], fortified by its statutory context, persuades us that the Act authorizes suit against natural persons alone". "[N]o one, we hazard to guess, refers in normal parlance to an organization as an 'individual,'" Sotomayor wrote.

These organisms are much more than a political party in the normal western European and American parlance.

In Nascar parlance -- but not normal sports discourse -- the number is a predominant identifier.

These longer delivery times became the new normal, or "service standards" in postal parlance.

Russell and Guynes, a kombucha manufacturer, conceived Peace as something like a Burning Man fever dream that would bring a little of the spirit back to normal life — or default world, in Burner parlance.

What kicked off my eating disorder – "triggered", in today's parlance – was a schoolfriend describing me as "normal sized".

This is the paradigm shift of modern parlance and after it has happened the scientific field returns to normal science, based on the new framework.

He has done the same at NBC Entertainment, adding such touches as extending the 30-minute running times of hit shows like "Friends" and "Will and Grace" by 10 minutes, super-sizing in his parlance, as a way to keep viewers from tuning in to the normal starting times of show on the other networks.

In their parlance: freedom.