How to Use vernacular in a Sentence

vernacular

1 of 2 adjective

• The poster is exactly that, a sound bite, and vernacular to the core.
  — New York Times, 15 Oct. 2020
• Seaweed is the vernacular word for the largest kinds of algae, known as macroalgae.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 16 Mar. 2020
• In Tudor times, the printing of vernacular Bibles dethroned Latin as the language of Christian faith.
  — John Garth, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Sep. 2022
• Later, the vernacular ritual merged with the Feast of St. Lucy and became a festival of light.
  — Karin Altenberg, WSJ, 30 Dec. 2020
• One of Mikołaj Grynberg’s vernacular short stories, each a snapshot of Jewish life in today’s Poland, takes the form of a standup act, a string of bitter gags.
  — Boyd Tonkin, WSJ, 11 Mar. 2022
• Emoji are part of our vernacular, with all of the attendant quirks and slang uses and confusion that come with it.
  — Lora Kelley, The Atlantic, 30 Dec. 2023
• The durable standing-seam metal roof was also a nod to vernacular architecture in the area.
  — Samantha Weiss Hills, Curbed, 26 Nov. 2018
• To him, vernacular references get in the way of making truly great buildings.
  — New York Times, 20 Sep. 2021
• Why is the vernacular image still being dismissed as ephemera?
  — Leanne Shapton, Curbed, 9 Sep. 2021
• Mickey Boardman: Paris Is Burning had a humongous impact on the vernacular and on the way gays talked, and even non-gay people.
  — José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 28 June 2023
• Over time, most people began to replace the name prairie wolf with coyote or as some people pronounced it, in vernacular speech, kie-ote.
  — National Geographic, 7 Aug. 2016
• Brutalism is, as the critic Michael J. Lewis has pointed out, the vernacular expression of the welfare state.
  — Nikil Saval, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2016
• An enormous stainless-steel knife blade, 6 feet tall and 12 feet long, sliced down from the roof of a vernacular building on North Hilldale Avenue, jutting out toward the street.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2022
• The book ends up an homage to a time when vernacular forms like folk, country and blues were the rock-solid foundations of music, rather than the beats, production tricks and techniques, and soundscapes of the last few decades.
  — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 27 Oct. 2022
• As one of the all-time great pop singers, Van Morrison uses vernacular to express himself and touch the deepest part of his listeners.
  — Armond White, National Review, 25 May 2022
• The vernacular style of the house — wooden logs chinked with plaster and covered in clapboard — allows historians to date its construction to the 1750s.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2020
• Met Gala affecting an English accent) — all place him in the long vernacular tradition of the trickster.
  — Adam Bradley Adam Bradley Photographs By D’angelo Lovell Williams Styled By Ian Bradley Nick Haramis Photographs By Lise Sarfati Styled By Suzanne Koller Sasha Weiss Photographs By Justin French Susan Dominus Photographs By Luis Alberto Rodriguez Styled By Charlotte Collet, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2022
• While Barker employs vernacular language to reduce the gap between past and present, Miller strives for a more archaic feel.
  — Miranda Seymour, The New York Review of Books, 17 Nov. 2021
• The most visible: The Catholic Mass began to be celebrated in vernacular languages, rather than just Latin.
  — Stefano Pitrelli, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2023
• The main house is a sprawling collection of shapes and volumes, some of which take their cues from vernacular rural buildings, capped by a combination of flat, arched, and peaked rooflines.
  — Mark David, Robb Report, 6 Oct. 2023
• Like Ansari, many of India’s TikTok stars live in small towns or villages, have either never made it to college or dropped out, and speak their vernacular language.
  — The Economist, 13 Sep. 2019
• The images cover a broad range, from photos of black men which touch on my relationship to black masculinity, to scenes of black vernacular life.
  — Chioma Nnadi, Vogue, 15 Apr. 2019
• Luther’s vernacular writings, above all his translation of the Bible, have a fair claim to have forged a single German language out of a multitude of local dialects.
  — Eamon Duffy, The New York Review of Books, 18 Apr. 2019
• Then there’s the fact that the Biden himself is 80 years old — youthful vernacular is outright absurd in his grandfatherly cadence.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 22 Feb. 2023
• But the key to these and other successes has been Cincinnati's ability to drill down on the opponent at-hand, however cliche that one-game-at-a-time mindset might be in the sports vernacular.
  — Cincinnati Enquirer, The Enquirer, 2 June 2023
• Jack’s on-the-page heightened vernacular and his lovable speech impediment are gone.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Nov. 2023
• The influence of James was still apparent in her sumptuous phrase-making and labyrinthine syntax, but now it was tempered by more vernacular rhythms.
  — Giles Harvey, The New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2021
• His studio is low-slung, gray, anonymous: an exemplar of the banal, vernacular L.A. that Ruscha has captured in so many paintings and photographs.
  — Mark Rozzo, Vanities, 30 May 2018
• While some elements of the house nod to vernacular architecture in the area, the interiors are contemporary and spare.
  — Samantha Weiss Hills, Curbed, 5 Aug. 2019
• The term kira-kira first appeared in the 1990s — often with a mockingly negative connotation, sometimes with a class element — and entered the vernacular around a decade ago.
  — Hikari Hida, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2023

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vernacular

2 of 2 noun

• He spoke in the vernacular of an urban teenager.
• The vernacular was good enough — for the artist and the art critic.
  — Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2021
• But all of this is done with a wondrous ear and a love for the vernacular.
  — George Saunders, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2017
• But the vernacular of work life for many has changed just as much as their work has.
  — New York Times, 11 Dec. 2021
• The English are proud of the range of their profane vernacular.
  — Georgi Kantchev, WSJ, 3 Aug. 2017
• There are many terms that are unique to the climate vernacular.
  — Zachary B. Wolf, CNN, 1 Nov. 2021
• Up and Big Sur’s Treebones to a part of the travel vernacular.
  — Sarah Feldberg, SFChronicle.com, 10 June 2019
• It's become sort of part of the vernacular of humor as in: easy joke.
  — Chris Barton, latimes.com, 25 Apr. 2018
• The whole piece is written in the pop vernacular for two reasons.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 22 Sep. 2021
• One was this mercurial ‘70s lizard king and the other one was a square, to use the vernacular of the time.
  — Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2021
• A wood ape is the local vernacular for a Sasquatch or a Bigfoot.
  — Joey Nolfi, PEOPLE.com, 29 June 2017
• Ed Life, in the in-house vernacular, has tried to explain this complex world.
  — Jane Karr, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2017
• The would-be word needs to be used in the common vernacular in multiple ways.
  — Christina Zdanowicz, CNN, 27 Feb. 2021
• Darren has a knack for teenagers, high school, and his vernacular.
  — Kerensa Cadenas, EW.com, 13 Dec. 2019
• Between the two world wars, there arose a modernist bias against the familiar and the vernacular.
  — John Check, WSJ, 28 Jan. 2022
• The film is telling less-than-perfect parents, to use the current vernacular: You’ve been seen.
  — Tim Gray, Variety, 11 Jan. 2022
• In baseball vernacular, the Ravens need to hit a couple of home runs, starting with the first round April 29 in Cleveland.
  — Mike Preston, baltimoresun.com, 13 Apr. 2021
• The important thing about this is the jury and the board just decided that the album is a word of vernacular avant-garde.
  — Joe Lynch, Billboard, 16 Apr. 2018
• The church replaced Latin with the vernacular of congregants and brought the altar down to the people’s level.
  — Audrey Clare Farley, The New Republic, 25 May 2021
• Now, the essence of it is aliens, spaceships, time travel and dinosaurs -- kind of a whole vernacular that didn’t exist in the world of magic.
  — John Canzano, oregonlive, 21 May 2021
• After Google uploaded a video of his talk to YouTube, the term entered the vernacular.
  — Cal Newport, The New Yorker, 17 Nov. 2020
• Hi-touch: A perk for fans who are willing to shell out extra money, the hi-touch is K-pop vernacular for high five.
  — Jae-Ha Kim, Allure, 13 Apr. 2020
• The hard work of translating the artist’s vision into the vernacular was mostly done by this time.
  — New York Times, 14 Apr. 2021
• That applies to turns of phrase in Jewish vernacular to which David himself was not privy.
  — Malina Saval, Variety, 3 Aug. 2022
• In the vernacular of post-modern basketball, few things elicit a did-you-see-that like a deep step-back jumper.
  — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 19 Feb. 2018
• Yang dressed in the informal vernacular of the disrupter.
  — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 28 June 2019
• Bill and Ted speak in what feels like a secret vernacular, often in unison.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2020
• Waiters wasn't (and still might not be) at a time in his career where deferring was in his vernacular.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun-Sentinel.com, 4 June 2017
• Being back in that vernacular really informed the play.
  — Jenelle Riley, Variety, 1 Sep. 2023
• In Australian vernacular, a larrikin is a mischievous prankster, a loud, uncultured, badly behaved young person given to flouting convention.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Mar. 2023

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