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Vernacular in sentence

54 examples of Vernacular in a sentence

The verb "to uniqlo-ize" (to cut costs dramatically through Chinese production and eliminating intermediaries) has entered Japan's business vernacular, as in: "Can we uniqlo-ize the housing industry?"
As Satyabrata Pal, a former Indian high commissioner to Pakistan, put it:“These jihadi groups recruit from the millions of young Pakistanis who emerge from vernacular schools and madrassas, imbued with a hatred for the modern world, in which they do not have the skills to work.
As vernacular languages--particularly French--displaced Latin, religious discourse gave way to observation and analysis, with unlimited faith in reason and scientific progress.
"Soor Singh," he spoke in the vernacular, "what is it when I become without sense?
He spoke hesitatingly, translating out of his own vernacular as he went on, and drawing himself to his full height, as he cleared the cluster of emeralds from his brow.
Stand back from the miss sahib!" he shouted in the vernacular, as Kate slipped to the ground, and the crowd closed about her.
A woman of the desert, very tall, gold-colored, and scarlet-lipped, threw back her face-cloth, caught Rate by the wrist, and made as if she would drag her away, crying aloud fiercely i,n the vernacular.
Moreover, he tells me nice tales," said the Maharaj Kunwar, speaking in the vernacular, with a friendly little nod toward Tarvin.
The child slipped quickly back into the vernacular.
Thy friend here speaks such English as I never knew," said the Maharajah in the vernacular.
"Nay; stay so," he said imperiously; and relapsing into the vernacular, muttered thickly:"Those who serve the king shall not lack their reward.
He did not know the vernacular as she did.
Then he relapsed, foaming, into the vernacular, and poured out a list of the hideous tortures that were within his will but not in his power to inflict.
He was speaking in the vernacular, but Kate understood too well the coupling of her name with Tarvin's.
"The Prince's trouble was much worse than that, I am afraid, Maharajah Sahib," said Kate."Ah, little one," said the King, bending over his son very tenderly, and speaking in the vernacular, "this is the fault of eating too much."
"Very well, Moti," said the Maharaj Kunwar, in the vernacular; "Kate says you are not a god, but only a little gray monkey, and I think so too.
Kate strode toward him, her little figure erect and quivering, crying in the vernacular, "Be silent, thou, or I will find means to close thy mouth!"
"O, my women, what have I done?" she cried, still in the vernacular.
Come, dear one," she added in the vernacular to the woman of the desert, and hand in hand they went out from the hospital together.
A child whom Tarvin had never before seen stood upright in the back of the carriage, and hurled a torrent of abuse in the vernacular at the outpaced trooper.
Umr Singh opened a tiny palm at a word from the Maharaj in the vernacular, and flung it outward at Tarvin.
"It is just, my brother," he said in the vernacular.
This _is_ the Icelandic original, in the magnificent idiomatic vernacular, which is both rich and simple, and admits of an infinite variety of grammatical combinations and verbal modifications."
The conversation was carried on in the vernacular tongue, which my uncle mixed with German and M. Fridrikssen with Latin for my benefit.
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