Sample sentences for VERNACULAR

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a characteristic language of a particular group

This sudden switch to the vernacular of feelings made Hema's lips tremble.
Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone

But, in the vernacular, she had accepted several rides from Steven Kemp, who was almost a stranger.
Stephen King -- Cujo
The plain-spoken marriage services of the vernacular Churches will no longer be abbreviated and half suppressed as indelicate.
George Bernard Shaw -- Man And Superman
"Hidy, Miss Eggers," he said, tipping an imaginary hat and sliding into the southern West Virginia vernacular.
Homer Hickam -- October Sky
She could afford to slip into the vernacular became she had such eloquent command of English.
Maya Angelou -- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
In the vernacular, Dallas.
J.D. Robb -- Immortal in Death
She didn't know a thing so rucked in the vernacular could have such an epic quality.
Don DeLillo -- Underworld
Deo went to work at Partners In Health, becoming, in the organization's vernacular, a PIH-er.
Tracy Kidder -- Strength in What Remains
Now, in medical school, I saw patients who'd frozen to death, in the vernacular, come back to life when they were warmed up.
Jodi Picoult -- Change of Heart
Lancelot looked at Sir Carados, and said in the vernacular: "Will you put that fellow down, and fight with me instead?"
T. H. White -- The Once and Future King
Monsieur my brother, doth it please you that I shall explain in good French vernacular that Greek word which is written yonder on the wall?
Victor Hugo -- The Hunchback of Notre Dame
At present there is only vernacular education at Mau.
E.M. Forster -- A Passage to India
Sometimes, while the head sheds (that's SEAL vernacular for our senior commanders) were studying a specific target, we were kept on hold.
Marcus Luttrell -- Lone Survivor
A Korean man, of his age, as part of the vernacular.
Chang-rae Lee -- Native Speaker
Kahaar relapsed into hedgerow vernacular.
Richard Adams -- Watership Down
Isn't it fascinating how these old tales make their way into the modern vernacular?
Henry H. Neff -- The Fiend And The Forge
"Very well, then," said Ignatius Gallaher, "let us have another one as a deoc an doruis—that's good vernacular for a small whisky, I believe."
James Joyce -- Dubliners
I must speak in the vernacular, to be comprehended.
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Prairie
I thought about him in that way, to borrow a phrase from the middle school vernacular.
John Green -- The Fault in Our Stars
To him, Hunt was the janissary of a dead vernacular.
Erik Larson -- The Devil in the White City

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