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Vernacular in sentence

54 examples of Vernacular in a sentence

I bet, in a couple of years, that phrases like "coworking" and "couchsurfing" and "time banks" are going to become a part of everyday vernacular.
We do like to shorten things in the Australian vernacular.
The only difference between traditional vernacular architecture and open-source architecture might be a web connection, but it's a really, really big difference.
I call it benjoin in the local vernacular, and the botanical name is Terminalia bentzoe, subspecies bentzoe.
This bush here is known as baume de l'ile plate in the local vernacular.
So mentoring, we've all kind of heard that before, it's in the vernacular.
The visual vernacular is the way we are used to seeing a certain thing applied to something else so that we see it in a different way.
But we can take this visual vernacular and apply it to Mr. Sedaris, and we are so familiar with how fortune cookie fortunes look that we don't even need the bits of the cookie anymore.
Mysteries of vernacular: Robot, a machine capable of carrying out a programmable series of actions.
It might be American vernacular for "nihilism."
We know they have their own vernacular, their own jargon.
It was that hands-on iterative process which is so much like vernacular design and folk design in traditional cultures.
The design of the of Kasungu Maternity Waiting Village borrows from the vernacular typologies of Malawi villages and is built using really simple materials and techniques.
We freely mix R's and L's, English and vernacular versions of their names.
Rubin, however, is all over the place with his confusion of the American vernacular of the time and almost everything concerning him makes no sense whatsoever (though I did like his funny dance).
It seems very novel to view and hear an action play employing the vernacular of Georgian England, Jane Austen's filmed drawing rooms being the primary example of that form of speech.
"Panaghoy" is hopefully the forerunner of a resurgence in this vernacular (that claims more speakers than Tagalog).
In fact it's a new vernacular.
The writer dresses up these problems and themes in the modern vernacular, crafts wonderfully honest characters, and has them do completely believable things.
Unless you are completely turned on by androgynous and asexual, white, thirty-something maritimers who wear vintage clothing, ride refurbished bicycles, and who enjoy long directionless conversations in a stilted and emotionless vernacular, than this is not the movie for you.
However, he is served with a somewhat juvenile script here and, at one point in the film, is given a few lines of 1940's teenage vernacular to speak!
It is very strange to see him suddenly break away from his normal way of speaking and start using this vernacular on his girlfriend.
One way to know a classic is how well it dates itself, not just in the vernacular, but philosophically.
in the dating game, perceptions of cute and creepy are in the eye of the beholder--and in this case, the eyes and minds of the viewers of the film as they are allowed to draw their own conclusions and create their own definitions of two seemingly different words in our vernacular.
Devout after a fashion, they follow their conscience or their convenience – their lives a more or less amiable standoff between doctrinal prohibitions and vernacular practice.
The commitment to European integration requires a common vernacular, and that is English.
This new use of printing technology to produce short, punchy pamphlets in the vernacular transformed the industry itself.
For example, the word kholop, which means “serf,” is returning to the vernacular, a linguistic devolution that parallels a troubling rise in Russia’s modern slavery.
Through online videos, he delivered fiery speeches in the local vernacular against government corruption and Morocco’s “dictatorship.”
Here, the argument is almost medieval, as when the Bible could not be translated into the vernacular for fear that people would seek God on their own and forget the guidance of the Church hierarchy.
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