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How to use parochial in a sentence

12 example sentences · adjective, noun

Parochial means pertaining to a parish. Example: “If the vast majority of the citizens of our Southeast Asian countries are subjects rather than parochials, the question is: are they also participants?”

Examples of parochial by meaning

nounA parochial individual.

  • If the vast majority of the citizens of our Southeast Asian countries are subjects rather than parochials, the question is: are they also participants?2006, Ian Marsh, Democratisation, Governance and Regionalism in East and Southeast Asia
  • Australia is divided between cosmopolitans and parochials.2022, Sumeyya Ilanbey, Daniel Andrews

More sentences with parochial

  • Many people lost their perspective in their euphoria and became parochial and presentist.2004, Barry Wellman, Bernie Hogan, “The Immanent Internet”, in Johnston McKay, editor, Netting Citizens: Exploring Citizenship in a…. From the entry presentism
  • Eating cream tea in the parochial club.2018, Mark Roberts, Killing Time, Head of Zeus Ltd, →ISBN. From the entry cream tea
  • First, unipartyism is still vulnerable to parochial intra-party competition.2013, Victor Oguejiofor Okafor, A Roadmap for Understanding African Politics, page 52. From the entry unipartyism
  • The bangals have been stereotyped as shrewd, opportunistic, greedy, parochial, and considered good enough only to become cooks or sweet-makers.2005, The Indian Journal of Social Work, Mumbai: Department of Publications, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 11. From the entry ghoti
  • Pseudoanalytical arguments, on the other hand, exploit impressionable individuals and bestow legitimacy on perhaps spurious beliefs and parochial hidden agendas.2004, Michael A. Caloyannides, Privacy Protection and Computer Forensics, →ISBN, page 298. From the entry pseudoanalytical
  • Most of the time, the rural gentry was pulled apart by parochial interests and divided along geographic lines into blocs of regional power.1994, Odoric Y. K. Wou, “Mobilizing the Sectarians: The Communists and the Red Spears”, in Mobilizing the Masses: Building Revolution in…. From the entry Luoshan
  • British Columbia as a rule has been treated by the culture of Central Canada as somehow exotic and unCanadian, and Alberta as a parochial outback.1974, Herschel Hardin, A Nation Unaware: The Canadian Economic Culture, J. J. Douglas, page 321. From the entry unCanadian
  • But for men of principle and honour and straightforward thought there could be no middle course and no paltering with petty issues of party or parochial advantage.1918 February 1, Daniel Desmond Sheehan, “Why I Joined The Army”, in Daily Express, London. From the entry middle course
  • But membership growth of this kind is limited, and many of the parochial communities of the Ordinariate have not yet achieved the sufficient size and stability necessary for long-term sustainability.2021, Timothy P. Perkins, “The evangelizing mission of the Ordinariate”, in Tracey Rowland, editor, The Anglican Patrimony in Catholic…. From the entry ordinariate
  • Religion and parochial etiquette are probed to reveal unhealthy, and sometimes shockingly violent, internal desires quite at odds with the surface life of a town in which tolerance is preached.2010 October 30, Joanna Briscoe, The Guardian. From the entry quite

Meaning of parochial

  1. adjective Pertaining to a parish.
  2. adjective Characterized by an unsophisticated focus on local concerns to the exclusion of wider contexts; elementary in scope or outlook.
  3. noun A parochial individual.

Full definition of parochial

Questions about parochial in a sentence

How do you use parochial in a sentence?
Parochial is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “If the vast majority of the citizens of our Southeast Asian countries are subjects rather than parochials, the question is: are they also participants?”
What is a short sentence with parochial?
“Australia is divided between cosmopolitans and parochials.”
What does parochial mean?
Parochial means pertaining to a parish.

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