Sample Sentences forparlance (auto-selected)
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The more unusual or bizarre the person was, the more "interesting" they would become in Walter's parlance.† (source)
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"Hoarder" hadn't entered everyday parlance, but Mamaw fit the bill, and her tendencies only worsened as she withdrew from the world.† (source)
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In the parlance of economics, Julien has said to Pari that if she cut off the supply of attention, perhaps the demands for it would cease as well.† (source)
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In Jamaican parlance, a store is not a store, it is a "Chinee-shop."† (source)
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Or, in Lincoln's typically folksy parlance: "Let 'em up easy."† (source)
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He then turns the conversation to the last issue on his agenda, telling Pelcovits he's planning to take all his classes satisfactory/no credit, or S/NC, Brown's parlance for pass/fail.† (source)
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When he pressured me, I explained myself like this: I did not feel adamant about saying no, but I also didn't feel adamant about saying yes, so until I felt strongly one way or another, I'd stick with no. By seventeen, in our senior year, Steve had moved on to a girl who would, in the parlance of high school, "put out."† (source)
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Cesar had what is known in many parlances as a moment of clarity.† (source)
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In Army parlance it was known as single-unit triangulation, and it was highly effective, though slow.† (source)
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But in scientific parlance the words for this absence of subject-object duality are scarce because scientific minds have shut themselves off from consciousness of this kind of understanding in the assumption of the formal dualistic scientific outlook.† (source)
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By the word nonlove I do not wish to imply that he took a cynical attitude to the young woman, that, as present-day parlance has it, he looked upon her as a sex object; on the contrary, he was quite fond of her, valued her character and intelligence, and was willing to come to her aid if ever she needed him.† (source)
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He had been drugged repeatedly, taken up to the moon, in the parlance of those who usually administered such narcotics.† (source)
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In the parlance of lawyers, I could urinate on the wrong part of a commode and if the board of education decided that this was "good and sufficient" reason for dismissal, then the courts would automatically side with them.† (source)
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From someone else, for instance Janice, the contact would simply be casual, friendly, just a kind of parlance, formless, easy talk.† (source)
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The second-eldest child, Buddy, was what is 'known in campus-catalogue parlance as "writer-in-residence" at a girls' junior college in upper New York State.† (source)
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It was a two-day show with a parade the first morning, a barbecue at noon, and the first round—go-round, in rodeo parlance—in all events that afternoon.† (source)
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