Sentence examples for parlance with from inspiring English sources
In football parlance, with which David Cameron may or may not be conversant, it was an astonishing own goal.
While reiterate took hold in common parlance with the meaning "to state something (over and over) again," iterate and iteration retreated to more scholarly corners of the language.
Yet it was the great Russian crystallographer and mineralogist Vladimir I. Vernadsky who brought the term into common parlance with his book of the same name.
Oh, I just enjoy it!" She spoke with great distinction, moving her lips meticulously, as if in parlance with the deaf.
The poems here all begin, in homage to William Carlos Williams (and in convincing fourth-grade parlance), with "This is just to say".
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.
They must become so-called destination places or be, in professional parlance, packed with program -- specialty shops for chocolates, sunglasses, lingerie and watches, along with eating spots featuring Mexican, New England, Deli and Healthy cuisine.
AT&T had scheduled the meetings -- "beauty pageants" in industry parlance -- with half a dozen banks at headquarters in Basking Ridge, N.J., to begin in the week of July 9.
As Alberto Livecchi, a longtime resident of South Ozone Park and the owner of a store selling musical equipment, explained, the construction of the casino — a racino, in gambling parlance — came with promises that have not materialized.
Grid literally stood out, at an oversized 13 1/2 by 10 1/2 inches (about one square foot, in real estate parlance) and with a distinctly bold graphic design, conceived by Mark Randall of World Studio.
In 1982, a congregation of Lubavitcher Hasidim bought a private home along Beachwood's western border for $270,000 and transformed it into a religious community center (known as a Chabad house, in Lubavitcher parlance) replete with worship services, ritual bath and summer day camp.
