Sentence examples for parlance on from inspiring English sources

It was the day – the day-night, to use the correct one-day parlance – on which an international cricketer emerged.

"Parenting" is one of those words, like "veggie," that worm their way into common parlance on the back of infectious social preoccupations.

They were caught, in chaser parlance, on the wrong storm.

In the parlance on our time, he bloody loves it.

But theirs were hardly the only applications that got a "boost," in admissions parlance, on this campus and others.

But today many of those corporations have decided to postpone or cancel plans to set up databases or telecommunications networks, leaving many consultants without any work, or in their parlance, "on the bench".

Edward Conlon's début novel, "Red on Red" (military parlance for one enemy soldier turning on another), takes a cerebral look at the moral and philosophical quandaries of a modern police force.

In Washington parlance, of course, taking on sacred cows typically means going after major entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare.

The background: Nice to see a couple of former New band of the dayers from way back still determined, to use the old soul parlance, to keep on keeping on.

Only now, after having advanced the relationship or, in Bachelor parlance, "getting that one-on-one time"—they are left wanting even more, forever in the uncritical honeymoon phase.

He served in two of the State Department's provincial reconstruction teams, or P.R.T.'s, in the alphabet soup parlance of the Global War on Terror (G-WOT).