Example Sentences

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They bob along, cash-rich and content with bossing it parochially, but even that is now at risk.

From BBC • Jan. 5, 2026

As a gardener in a fixed location, I am parochially drawn to the data in Washington, specifically at Reagan National Airport in Northern Virginia.

From Washington Post • Jun. 1, 2021

We should deplore anything that needlessly degrades its beauty and serenity, just as, more parochially, we don’t want tinsel or phone masts in our national parks.

From The Guardian • Dec. 29, 2019

A parochially Protestant culture was beginning to do intellectual trade with the rest of Europe: French realism and naturalism, Darwinism and radical atheism were the imported goods.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 14, 2019

In many cases the colonists might have to change—or as we would parochially say, terraform—a world to make it adequately clement.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan