Sentence examples for popular parlance from inspiring English sources

It was before phone hacking had even entered the popular parlance.

The shoes — and the company — became known in popular parlance simply as Vans.

Because in popular parlance 'immigrant' means anyone that is black, brown or foreign-looking.

It's also endlessly quotable, with characters dispensing terminology that's since passed into popular parlance.

In popular parlance, Epicureanism thus means devotion to pleasure, comfort, and high living, with a certain nicety of style.

Yet those reservations could not prevent "genocide" from becoming the speech-act Lemkin intended in popular parlance.

"It saddens me," said Dr. Lifton, who wrote a 1961 book on what the Chinese called "thought reform" and became known in popular American parlance as brainwashing.

Among the town's most popular pieces of parlance is "I don't disagree".

"In real life," or IRL, is a popular term in online parlance.

Lance Armstrong's name sold these books, and in the parlance of popular discussion, they are his books, just as the President's speeches are the President's, regardless of who wrote them.

Mindfulness, a term that until fairly recently has not been very much in the current parlance has recently become a popular subject.