How to Use parochial in a Sentence

parochial

adjective
  • Now, fashion is very parochial and very predictable.
    — James Fallon, Footwear News, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The Home Scholars and parochial schools are light years ahead.
    — Baltimore Sun, 18 May 2022
  • The plan is available to public, charter and parochial schools.
    — Peter Krouse, cleveland, 1 Sep. 2020
  • But Vargas had no use for parochial nonsense and would help anyone who helped him.
    — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 8 Jan. 2023
  • As the city’s electorate continues to evolve, the races have become far less parochial.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2019
  • Catholic and other parochial schools still exist, of course—and many of them receive public funds.
    — Rachel Donadio, The Atlantic, 22 Nov. 2021
  • Because the demos can be xenophobic, narrow, parochial, and so forth.
    — Patrick J. Deneen, Harper’s Magazine , 5 Jan. 2023
  • Drunken shouts, parochial boasts, empty words cannot conceal the treachery.
    — Amos Oz, Harper's magazine, 10 Apr. 2019
  • The former would be in the president's parochial interests and would be over the line.
    — CBS News, 10 Nov. 2019
  • With Perth being the most isolated city in the world, it is often seen as parochial.
    — Michael Bailey, New York Times, 19 Nov. 2025
  • There are four regional teams made up of seniors from all the public, private and parochial schools in the state.
    — Melissa Whatley, baltimoresun.com, 7 July 2021
  • That felt like a parochial truth, something that didn’t quite meet the standards of our great national problems.
    — Scott Herhold, The Mercury News, 19 Apr. 2017
  • Its perspective became parochial again and has stayed that way since the early ’80s.
    — Armond White, National Review, 10 Feb. 2020
  • Still, some observers are hopeful that there might be an opening to tackle issues in less parochial ways than has been the norm.
    — John King, SFChronicle.com, 21 Sep. 2020
  • But what is happening to the Kennedy Center is not a parochial arts dispute.
    — Helmut Paul, Chicago Tribune, 10 Feb. 2026
  • His Irish-Italian family raised him as a strict Catholic in parochial schools.
    — Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2021
  • This kind of thing was more common in Washington two decades ago, when the arts were comfortably parochial.
    — Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2019
  • But my concerns are primarily parochial.
    — Tim Dunn, Boston Herald, 24 Dec. 2025
  • Like the Cahill kids (all three of whom went to college), Boyle and his brother attended parochial schools.
    — Andrew Lewis, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2021
  • But Shayk manages to make the parochial look more casual and loosened up with a skirt-and-hoodie combo.
    — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 14 Oct. 2020
  • There is nothing more parochial or bland than being a soft, white Anglican kid from Ottawa.
    — Graydon Carter, The Atlantic, 14 Mar. 2025
  • But even in the narrowest, most parochial sense, their income contributes to the nation’s greatness.
    — Eduardo Porter, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2017
  • In 2020, the court held that state scholarship funds had to be available to parochial schools as well as public schools.
    — Jeffrey Toobin, CNN, 25 Apr. 2022
  • At its peak, the company served more than 40 parochial, private and Christian schools in the region.
    — Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News, 15 Mar. 2021
  • Once the model is developed and tested, the consortium plans to reach out to public, charter and parochial schools.
    — Karen Farkas, cleveland.com, 10 May 2017
  • Distraught by life in the South, Reed figured that the only way to escape his parochial childhood was to write his way out.
    — Duane Byrge, HollywoodReporter, 12 May 2026
  • Not all the stories work — 24 might have been better than 34 — and sometimes the concept is too thin, the joke too parochial.
    — Dallas News, 16 July 2019
  • Yet the prospect of merging our courses excited me for a kind of parochial reason, as well—the converse of the reason for my past queasiness.
    — Bernard Avishai, The New Yorker, 2 Feb. 2024
  • The United States would not be a normal great power, seeking parochial gains in an anarchic world.
    — Hal Brands, Foreign Affairs, 20 Jan. 2021
  • The disagreement is colored by Maine’s parochial politics.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 21 Oct. 2025

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