How to Use parochial in a Sentence

parochial

adjective

• 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
• The former would be in the president's parochial interests and would be over the line.
  — CBS News, 10 Nov. 2019
• 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
• As the city’s electorate continues to evolve, the races have become far less parochial.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2019
• 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
• 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 Vargas had no use for parochial nonsense and would help anyone who helped him.
  — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 8 Jan. 2023
• His Irish-Italian family raised him as a strict Catholic in parochial schools.
  — Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2021
• The test of that promise is whether Congress will act swiftly, or let the weapons get bogged down in a parochial fight over Covid-19 funding.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 2 May 2022
• 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
• Catholic and other parochial schools still exist, of course—and many of them receive public funds.
  — Rachel Donadio, The Atlantic, 22 Nov. 2021
• 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
• Its perspective became parochial again and has stayed that way since the early ’80s.
  — Armond White, National Review, 10 Feb. 2020
• Doyle said the archdiocese is still at risk because C.Y.O. leagues often play their games at parochial schools owned by the church.
  — New York Times, 14 Oct. 2021
• Because the demos can be xenophobic, narrow, parochial, and so forth.
  — Patrick J. Deneen, Harper’s Magazine , 5 Jan. 2023
• 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
• This kind of thing was more common in Washington two decades ago, when the arts were comfortably parochial.
  — Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2019
• 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 Shayk manages to make the parochial look more casual and loosened up with a skirt-and-hoodie combo.
  — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 14 Oct. 2020
• An Irish Catholic educated by nuns in parochial schools, Biden is quick to invoke the church’s social teaching on the stump.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Aug. 2020
• Drunken shouts, parochial boasts, empty words cannot conceal the treachery.
  — Amos Oz, Harper's magazine, 10 Apr. 2019
• The United States’ agenda has also expanded and, at the same time, become more parochial.
  — Jeremy Friedman, Foreign Affairs, 17 July 2024
• Public, private, parochial, and home-schooled students are welcome from any zip code.
  — Sue Ellen Ross, chicagotribune.com, 3 Sep. 2021
• 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
• Others said the joke was nativist and parochial, and played into the idea that Boston is only welcoming to white people who were born and raised in the city.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Mar. 2021
• The press has noted that 33 House Republicans hail from the top nine states for the deduction as a share of income, but not all of them are as parochial as Mr. King.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2017
• In an era when parochial schools often are budget-strapped, Mary, Seat of Wisdom has a therapist and counselor on staff.
  — George Castle, chicagotribune.com, 14 Mar. 2022
• 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
• House Bill 1027 allows students in failing schools to attend a private, parochial or public school.
  — Mark N. Fisher, Baltimore Sun, 20 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024