Sentence examples for parochial usage from inspiring English sources

If I put aside parochial usage and take "spiritual experience" more generally to mean the arrival in nature of a transcendent state of being, then the very emergence of consciousness from a lineage of material strikes me as its crowning example.

AT risk of sounding parochial myself, I wish that Truss had devoted a few pages to taking on the usage czars of American academe -- particularly those at the Modern Language Association and University of Chicago Press, whose anti-capital, anti-hyphen, anti-italic stylebooks seek to return modern logography to the uniformity of ancient papyri.

Its setting feels parochial.

Parochial companies may perish.

So far, so parochial.

"It's parochial here.

Too parochial?

Parochial, local.

He found the atmosphere parochial.

This is parochial stuff.

It becomes parochial.