Sample Sentences for
parochial
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parochial as in:  limited by a parochial view

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    Her views on immigration were criticized as parochial and out of touch with global realities.
    parochial = narrow in outlook
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    She is very practical, but I'm bored by her parochial outlook.
    parochial = narrowly restricted
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    But I did go to Catholic parochial school till the sixth grade.  (source)
    parochial = related to a religious organization
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    The parochial snobbery of these people was partly responsible for their failure to convert the Indians.  (source)
    parochial = narrow outlook
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    Calling on his women friends at their hospitable apartments in quiet Moscow back streets, he amiably teased them and their husbands on their backwardness and parochialism.†  (source)
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    She told Katherine Keeling that our English reading lists were "even more parochial" than she had feared.  (source)
    parochial = narrow in view
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    His own parochialism made him ashamed by its contrast.†  (source)
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    Sol realized what he had known and forgotten about very small communities: they were frequently annoying, always parochial, sometimes prying on a one-to-one level, but never had they subscribed to the vicious legacy of the so-called "public's right to know."  (source)
    parochial = narrow in outlook
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    This is no longer an age of parochialism but of competition, in art and science just as much as in commerce—co-operation with your own group, but with those outside it, competition to the death!†  (source)
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    He had moved from a more nationalistic, all-encompassing theme of African unity to a more parochial one addressed to the Xhosa people, of whom he was one.  (source)
    parochial = narrowly focused
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    But seeing Frank and his wife began to undermine my parochialism and loosen the hold of the tribalism that still imprisoned me.  (source)
    parochialism = narrow outlook
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    American feminism must become less parochial, so that it is every bit as concerned with sex slavery in Asia as with Title IX sports programs in Illinois.  (source)
    parochial = narrowly focused
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    She was quite concerned at how many Canadian authors were on our reading lists; because she'd not read them, she suspected them of the gravest parochialism.†  (source)
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parochial as in:  parochial school

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They both attended parochial elementary schools. Hers was Catholic and his was Lutheran.
parochial = relating to religious organization
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    Every Orthodox Jew sent his male children to a yeshiva, a Jewish parochial school,  (source)
    parochial = relating to a church (or parish) (or in this instance, a temple)
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    Marita used to go to a parochial school down the street from her home, until her mother heard of KIPP.  (source)
    parochial = related to a religious organization
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    Cathedrals, chapels, tabernacles, abbeys, monasteries, convents, parochial schools ....  (source)
    parochial = relating to religious organization
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