Sentence examples for vernacular like from inspiring English sources

He is interested in the vernacular, like Sturges was.

Cornish is a scholar's tongue, not a surviving vernacular like Welsh.

They are, after all, basic to the American vernacular, like the advertising jingle and the billboard.

Barry's vernacular, like his plot, is a wonderful blend of past, present and imagined future.

"At our peril we ignore the fact that black vernacular, like the blues, both has a form and performs..

The accompanying texts are phrases from films, paintings and the vernacular, like "Stormy Weather," "Gone With the Wind," "black girl," "black magic" and "Blacula".

So we may indeed see a different change in writing: not kids using inappropriate text-speak in their formal writing, but writing generally in a way that is more vernacular, speech-like.

But despite its generous function, the cops are not just exploiting the convenience of the technology on social media – they're also running with the opportunity to humanise themselves, and to garner favour in today's popular vernacular, through likes and shares.

Vernacular forms like the shotgun, in places like New Orleans, served a purpose that went far beyond aesthetics — they encouraged natural cooling by improving cross-ventilation.

The list of quesadillas and tacos is extensive and inventive, the vernacular dishes flamboyantly vulgar, like the cryptically named "mother road roadhouse chile," a beef and pork slopfest in which Dos X's beer and chiles play leading roles, or a Santa Fe shepherd's pie made with chili macaroni and jack cheese.

Like great fashion photography, couture has been exhaustively mined and recombined with vernacular styles like workwear.