Examples of 'parochial' in a sentence
Meaning of "parochial"
parochial (adjective): having a narrow outlook, limited to a particular locality; not influenced by the broader view of the world
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- Pertaining to a parish.
- Characterized by an unsophisticated focus on local concerns to the exclusion of wider contexts; elementary in scope or outlook.
- A parochial individual.
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A parochial school and dispensary are in the village.
The priests also had parochial responsibilities.
Parochial boards replaced by elected parish councils.
Become bogged down by parochial consi derations.
The parochial school just up the road.
The book is neither parochial nor partisan.
My mistake was trying to keep the matter parochial.
There is no parochial division in the big business.
Maybe we should send you to parochial school.
Subsequently the parochial committee hosted a public.
The restored refectory is now in parochial use.
Let us not be parochial in our approach to these reforms.
Neither may they confer parochial benefices.
The parochial register says your father is unknown.
He later attended the parochial school there.
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As a parochial clergyman he was indefatigable in his duties.
He was a firm supporter of the parochial school system.
So there is a parochial explanation in silicon valley.
His entire career was spent in parochial schools.
He attended parochial school and seminary.
She was just released from parochial school.
He created twenty parochial schools for immigrant children.
It was replaced by the main parochial church.
It is not a parochial or even a private school.
His life and career were fairly parochial.
This is not to say that parochial sentiments are unimportant.
Parochial shuttle buses will be cancelled.
They write from a less parochial perspective.
Some parochial schools required them.
He attends what we used to call a parochial school.
This may seem a parochial matter but it is not.
The child is enrolled in private or parochial school.
Before that the parochial church served as a temple.
His strongest connection was through parochial school.
Some progressives compared parochial education to racial segregation.
A parochial school was established in the same year.
But that just shows how parochial we are.
Whose parochial church his tomb is pointed out.
Many of us have been too parochial in our outlook.
Catholic parochial school may have a dress code.
Subsequently left to enter a parochial school and.
Parochial schools and all that.
Threatened the life of the parochial school.
A parochial rate is levied to defray the expenses of these activities.
The same is for parochial schools.
He accused the political elite of being dishonest and parochial.
No comment was made on the parochial work of the sacristan.
To think otherwise is simplistic and parochial.
He was educated in local parochial and public high school.
Yet we have always been too parochial.
