How to Use parochial in a Sentence

parochial

adjective
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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The event is a tradition that welcomes new teachers in the public, private and parochial schools to the community.
    — Carol Kovach, cleveland, 3 Aug. 2021
  • The virus appeared last week in one student and one staff member who traveled to Italy on a trip sponsored by a parochial high school in Pawtucket.
    — Peter Whoriskey, Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2020
  • Private and parochial schools, which have been operating in person since late August, are starting to feel the crunch, as well.
    — NBC News, 6 Dec. 2020
  • But they are also tasked by the American people to protect the country’s national security, not just the parochial interests of the president.
    — Risa Brooks, Foreign Affairs, 20 Mar. 2024
  • In a letter earlier this year to Michigan lawmakers on legislative priorities, Rice said parents should be able to choose from among public (including charter), private, parochial, and home schools.
    — Allison Torres Burtka and Hannah Dellinger, Detroit Free Press, 5 Apr. 2024

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