VERNACULAR in a Sentence

Learn VERNACULAR from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

Example sentences for VERNACULAR, such as:

1. He had lapsed into the vernacular.
2. Galileo wrote in the vernacular to reach a larger audience.
3. Nay, yo mun ax 'er,' he replied callously, in broad vernacular.
4. She never knew how to answer him when he was in this condition of the vernacular.
5. So he has a certain vernacular, and a certain way he needs to talk right now, Nagin said.

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 Meanings and Examples of VERNACULAR
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vernacular
 n.  everyday speech of people, as distinguished from literary language; natural style; standard native language of a country or locality
Classic Sentence:
1  Nay, yo mun ax 'er,' he replied callously, in broad vernacular.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
2  He had lapsed into the vernacular.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
3  She never knew how to answer him when he was in this condition of the vernacular.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
4  He spoke the vernacular with a curious calm assurance, as if he were the landlord of the Inn.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
Example Sentence:
1  Galileo wrote in the vernacular to reach a larger audience.
2  The French I learned at school is very different from the local vernacular of the village where I'm now living.
3  So he has a certain vernacular, and a certain way he needs to talk right now, Nagin said.