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

I hasten to note that Cardinal Gregory is not a cleric parochially focused only on Catholic matters.

From Washington Post • Dec. 24, 2020

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

The perennial criticism of the degree as parochially British and old-fashioned can be overdone.

From The Guardian • Feb. 23, 2017

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