How to Use parlance in a Sentence

parlance

noun

• In film parlance, this would be a spoiler.
  — Literary Hub, 29 Apr. 2026
• To hang on for dear life, or, in church parlance, to endure to the end.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 May 2022
• In the parlance of the internet, the past week has been a year.
  — NBC News, 4 June 2020
• In the parlance of the times, this was known as a quickie divorce.
  — Robert Goulder, Forbes, 18 June 2021
• This is a Santa who, in the parlance of the times, can get it.
  — Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, 23 Nov. 2018
• Now the trick will be to get older females to show up as well (in movie parlance.
  — Pamela McClintock, HollywoodReporter, 15 Feb. 2026
• Or in the parlance of one of its quiz questions, who has the biggest smile right now?
  — Heather Schwedel, Slate Magazine, 16 Oct. 2017
• In rom-com parlance, of course, that means the pair are destined for puppy love.
  — Philip Brandes, latimes.com, 26 May 2017
• In restaurant parlance, the dining area is front-of-house and the kitchen is back-of-house.
  — Jeff Winkler, The Atlantic, 30 Dec. 2020
• May that kind of pleasure, as the current parlance goes, never find me.
  — Jo Hamya, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2025
• At two, the girl had been diagnosed, in the parlance of the day, as deaf-mute and had been sent away.
  — Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker, 8 May 2017
• This is, to use the parlance of the Western’s times, a lot of horse apples.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 13 Aug. 2022
• But the Heat, to use old-school basketball parlance, still have two chances to make one.
  — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 26 Sep. 2020
• But the fact that the term has wiggled its way into common parlance also speaks to the times.
  — Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2021
• In the parlance of football coaches, either would look good leading the team off the bus.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 21 June 2023
• The lastest person to turn her head, in Love Island parlance?
  — Emma Specter, Vogue, 13 June 2025
• To borrow Henley's parlance, Gill sang his ass off for most of the night.
  — Rory Appleton, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Mar. 2022
• The parlance of golf nerdery may be Tiger Woods’s favorite language.
  — Brian Costa, WSJ, 14 Mar. 2018
• It’s called, in the colorful parlance of the investing world, a dead cat bounce.
  — Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 8 Apr. 2025
• In the parlance of sports fandom, Wembanyama is a freak.
  — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 25 Dec. 2025
• In a nutshell, this is how every question (in the show’s parlance, every clue) works.
  — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2017
• And that first Game 7 in finals history, in the parlance of the day, was a humdinger.
  — The Athletic Nba Staff, New York Times, 22 June 2025
• The true hero is an environment, an atmosphere—in the parlance of our times, a vibe.
  — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
• In the parlance of economics, this study points to the increase in demand for jobs, rather than the supply.
  — Benjamin Harris, Fortune, 11 Sep. 2017
• In Wall Street parlance, the float refers to the number of shares available to the public.
  — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 13 Aug. 2025
• But those horses, as in any Derby, are in just the spring of their three-year-old seasons, teenagers in human parlance.
  — Tim Layden, SI.com, 3 May 2018
• In stock market parlance, think of the Rams as a growth stock and the Chargers as a dividend play.
  — Michael Ozanian, CNBC, 5 Sep. 2024
• Our driver cuts down an alley, a ruelle in the local parlance, only to run into more gridlock.
  — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 14 Aug. 2025
• The tournament was played in person (over the board, or OTB, in chess parlance).
  — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Oct. 2022
• This season, Cardi B was there right on time—in fashion parlance, that’s only half an hour late.
  — José Criales-Unzueta, Vanity Fair, 8 July 2026