vernacular
Example Sentences
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It can be anything from a particular vernacular that they only employ when they’re deeply moved, or the way the light falls across a one-in-8-billion facial structure you could never have dreamed of.
From Los Angeles Times
They’re hearty, warm, cheesy, creamy and indulgent — just a few words that are part of the season’s culinary vernacular.
From Salon
Galaxy’s Edge came with its own vernacular, and an elaborate game in the Play Disney mobile app that was designed to track a guest’s reputation and be used in the land.
From Los Angeles Times
He has the vernacular to have these conversations about what he needs from me to get him to where he needs to be.
From Los Angeles Times
The painting’s full-length figures, like those in Old Master official portraits, are here translated into a contemporary vernacular, with a radiant Aline Charigot, Renoir’s future wife, in the arms of his friend Paul Lhote.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
