parochial

Example Sentences

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His main example to demonstrate this on the right, as far as I can tell, is voucher systems, charter networks and parochial institutions.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 26, 2026

“It was very parochial in Philadelphia, part Rust Belt and part ‘Sopranos,’ ” Witte said.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 24, 2025

The outbreak, predictably, was especially bad in private and parochial schools with high numbers of unvaccinated students.

From Slate • Dec. 9, 2025

We have been able to build and maintain global alliances because other countries trusted that they were dealing with a nation that was not simply driven by its own parochial interests and bottom line.

From Salon • Dec. 9, 2025

A more general and surely less parochial view was that his face had been just barely saved from too-handsomeness, not to say gorgeousness, by virtue of one ear’s protruding slightly more than the other.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger