How to Use parochial in a Sentence

parochial

adjective

• The Home Scholars and parochial schools are light years ahead.
  — Baltimore Sun, 18 May 2022
• The plan is available to public, charter and parochial schools.
  — Peter Krouse, cleveland, 1 Sep. 2020
• In 2020, the court held that state scholarship funds had to be available to parochial schools as well as public schools.
  — Jeffrey Toobin, CNN, 25 Apr. 2022
• Like the Cahill kids (all three of whom went to college), Boyle and his brother attended parochial schools.
  — Andrew Lewis, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2021
• But Vargas had no use for parochial nonsense and would help anyone who helped him.
  — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 8 Jan. 2023
• His Irish-Italian family raised him as a strict Catholic in parochial schools.
  — Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2021
• The test of that promise is whether Congress will act swiftly, or let the weapons get bogged down in a parochial fight over Covid-19 funding.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 2 May 2022
• There are four regional teams made up of seniors from all the public, private and parochial schools in the state.
  — Melissa Whatley, baltimoresun.com, 7 July 2021
• Catholic and other parochial schools still exist, of course—and many of them receive public funds.
  — Rachel Donadio, The Atlantic, 22 Nov. 2021
• At its peak, the company served more than 40 parochial, private and Christian schools in the region.
  — Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News, 15 Mar. 2021
• Doyle said the archdiocese is still at risk because C.Y.O. leagues often play their games at parochial schools owned by the church.
  — New York Times, 14 Oct. 2021
• Because the demos can be xenophobic, narrow, parochial, and so forth.
  — Patrick J. Deneen, Harper’s Magazine , 5 Jan. 2023
• Still, some observers are hopeful that there might be an opening to tackle issues in less parochial ways than has been the norm.
  — John King, SFChronicle.com, 21 Sep. 2020
• But Shayk manages to make the parochial look more casual and loosened up with a skirt-and-hoodie combo.
  — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 14 Oct. 2020
• Public, private, parochial, and home-schooled students are welcome from any zip code.
  — Sue Ellen Ross, chicagotribune.com, 3 Sep. 2021
• Yet the prospect of merging our courses excited me for a kind of parochial reason, as well—the converse of the reason for my past queasiness.
  — Bernard Avishai, The New Yorker, 2 Feb. 2024
• Others said the joke was nativist and parochial, and played into the idea that Boston is only welcoming to white people who were born and raised in the city.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Mar. 2021
• In an era when parochial schools often are budget-strapped, Mary, Seat of Wisdom has a therapist and counselor on staff.
  — George Castle, chicagotribune.com, 14 Mar. 2022
• The event is a tradition that welcomes new teachers in the public, private and parochial schools to the community.
  — Carol Kovach, cleveland, 3 Aug. 2021
• Private and parochial schools, which have been operating in person since late August, are starting to feel the crunch, as well.
  — NBC News, 6 Dec. 2020
• The order applies to students in public, charter, private and parochial schools.
  — Lauren Lumpkin, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2022
• The political process that led NASA to this point in recent decades was messy and motivated by parochial pork projects.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 11 Dec. 2022
• We weren’t even done having children, and parochial schools would mean even more budget stress, no school bus, and more pressure on me to earn real money.
  — Rachel Lu, National Review, 17 Mar. 2022
• The parochial squabble had also become a subject of far wider interest.
  — New York Times, 27 Dec. 2021
• According to Carbone, all parochial, out-of-district private and out-of-district magnet schools will be open.
  — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 17 Oct. 2022
• This includes, but is not limited to, public schools, private schools, parochial and charter schools.
  — oregonlive, 28 May 2021
• But that parochial assumption has been called into question in recent years.
  — Nate Hochman, National Review, 19 May 2022
• The show also focuses its attention beyond the parochial view that the only teams that matter to San Antonio are the Spurs and the Cowboys.
  — Richard A. Marini, San Antonio Express-News, 12 Mar. 2021
• Neither do the opening of scores of private and parochial schools around the city or community hubs to help public schoolkids with distance learning.
  — Heather Knight, SFChronicle.com, 21 Nov. 2020
• There are options these folks might consider — home schooling or parochial or private schools.
  — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024