Sentence Examples:
I had better have said her vernacular idiom.
Where had he laid hold of that choice bit of our vernacular?
He asked in the vernacular.
I have also left out the vernacular literature of the Scotch before the time of Burns.
Don't say 'sir' to me; it's a badge of servitude pasted onto the vernacular.
He glosses the Vulgate Scriptures with vernacular notes.
Even the heroine of the drama is made to speak in the vernacular dialect.
Dexter wished to be elegant she stepped out of the vernacular.
In the headings of titles, the names of authors are given in their vernacular form.
She lapsed into vernacular.
The answer was truly heroic, being rendered into the vernacular, "I won't."
The latter is assisted at every step by his previous knowledge of his vernacular.
"I am going to try my vernacular on the bride," Ryder had told her.
Desperately Ryder grasped for his vernacular.
That was the trouble with his vernacular.
The same dilemma occurred, as each was ignorant of the other's vernacular.
That is to say, what is the place which he fills in his own vernacular literature?
Dermot smiled at this very usual vernacular expression.
Asked his master in the vernacular.
The boy had fallen into the hill vernacular to which he had been born.
There also the vernacular language is spoken with the greatest purity.
"In the vernacular," she answered coolly.
Cried Newton, dropping from bold metaphor to vulgar vernacular.
"Twist at the two knobs," I said in their vernacular.
The English of all the poems is simple and vernacular.
Burns had the vernacular to help him, and for the most part a model to steer by.
"All you English are mad," he said in the vernacular.
"None except the vernacular that the lady specials write in," said Boyd.
This volume comprises my writings on subjects chiefly of our vernacular literature.
Queried Dora, in the vernacular of her calling.
In the vernacular, he was "an easy mark."
Thus, in later days, a rich vernacular literature grew up with many distinct branches.
This last I said with a thrill; truly, I was gripping hold of the vernacular.
It was among the earliest of Latin books to be translated into vernacular languages.
In both these vernacular products we find a new start, a fresh impulse, under Alfred.
She intended to employ the vernacular that was part of the disguise of Gypsy Nan.
To borrow the forceful vernacular of the street, there was "something in him."
It would add much to the regularity, dignity, and beauty, of our vernacular tongue.
The new "vernacular" took place of the old "classical" literary language.
The books were published in the vernacular: the people read them.
Pardon my relapse into the vernacular.
He demanded angrily, lapsing into graphic vernacular.
Speaking in the vernacular, it puts you in the class of the "dead ones."
Bill's vernacular expressed it exactly.
If written in the vernacular, the work was immediately set down as vulgar.
His very vernacular made him popular; his honesty was beyond suspicion.
Shouted Jim again in his southern vernacular.
Richardson demanded in the vernacular.
Buchanan sent copies of the vernacular Scriptures already published.
Neither had, so far as we know, the least assistance from antecedent vernacular models.
"Sacked," in the New York vernacular, means discharged from a place.
"Then, in common vernacular, though it is really beneath us, what's up?"
One spoke English so well that I asked if it were her vernacular.
Kim's next sentence was in the vernacular.
Yet he knew that he was, in the vernacular of the region, "going down-hill."
Lines and phrases of his have passed into the common vernacular of our daily life.
He demanded, in the blunt vernacular of the service.
The modern vernacular for the successful squire of dames was then unknown.
"Windows," murmured Nancy grasping the idea and translating it into the vernacular.
Then with a drop into the vernacular.
I think I shall reserve myself for my little vernacular speech at the end.
The truth is that his rural use of the vernacular was part of the charm.
Though these are departures from the current vernacular.
Uncle Charlie had caught snatches of school vernacular.
Joe spoke then, a single sentence in the vernacular for Harold's ears.
And he felt exactly like the flat tire of Janet's distinguished vernacular.
It was not their vernacular.
Running Bear abandoned the vernacular for a moment and dropped into English.
Honey Tone relapsed into the vernacular.
She laughed as she said this, for her use of the vernacular was conscious.
He helped to make the vernacular tongues of Western Europe literary.
Can he keep up his vernacular among them and still preserve the charm?
These are a few of the many proverbs which characterize woman in one vernacular only.
There are an arts college and Anglo-vernacular schools.
Esther lapsed into the vernacular of her adopted country.
It has a habitat and a manner, a character and a vernacular.
James Thornton would now and then slip into the vernacular.
Vernacular prayer books are generally sold at a cost much below that of their production.
Its vernacular name emphasizes its hardness.
He spoke their vernacular dialects with facility and precision.
It was rather difficult for Rue to follow him amid the vernacular mazes.
Some were also written in Latin while Sherry moves in the vernacular.
She said this in the tone of one consciously assuming the vernacular.
He was, if you will pardon the vernacular, on the outside, looking in.
I will tone down her vernacular: it does not spell easily.
She had lapsed into her old-time vernacular.
The jokes are in the vernacular, but in a vernacular as spoken in a certain social medium.
The little ones say, in their plain vernacular, "Papa is cross."
I wrote her some verses in the vernacular; she read them.
His style is vernacular: he delivers household truths.
He was reading "Don Quixote" in the vernacular.
Here I repeat the question, is the word vernacular, or only adopted?
He asked, adopting the child's vernacular.
You must talk to him in the vernacular.
In their vernacular "they didn't see it."
Which means in the vernacular: Chase yourself.
Look here, you must not speak vernacular to our boys.