Sentence examples for vernacular time from inspiring English sources

Words are powerful, and it's time we start using the proper ones in American vernacular; time to stop speaking to each other as children and grow up and face facts: We are a tragic nation on the decline socially, economically and politically.

War widows adopt their own vernacular, and time is something measured in small increments.

"Yo," he thundered in the vernacular of his time.

You (in the unlovely vernacular of our time) curate.

He calls it a 'Manzarene.' " I am not sure, in the vernacular of the time, what playing "all sorts of airs" might have meant.

But even then, discrimination was a given, with the black West Indians paid at a far lower rate — silver roll versus gold roll, in the vernacular of the time — than white workers.

You can't narrate them all You (in the unlovely vernacular of our time) curate" (Guardian); "People feel – jargon word – empowered" (Guardian); "a series of advertisements featuring, for want of a better word, 'real' people" (Guardian); and so on.

These albums proudly boasted of not featuring the original artists, but arguably attempted to deflect buyers' attention with free posters and a sleeve image of, to use the crude vernacular of the time, a "dolly bird" in a state of undress.

Singer and music historian Michael Feinstein told The Times in 2011 that lyrically David was "a very inventive wordsmith" who was "able to take the vernacular of the time and elevate it to poetic heights".

The movie should have launched Schiller into the industry, into the discussion, into the cinematic vernacular of the times.

But years before we came into the picture he was, in the vernacular of the times, a "refo".