How to Use parable in a Sentence

parable

noun
  • He told the children a parable about the importance of forgiveness.
  • My life felt like a parable of the rewards of hard work.
    — Emi Nietfeld, Longreads, 13 Dec. 2019
  • Remember the parable of the blind men and the elephant?
    — Tamar Haspel, Washington Post, 23 Jan. 2023
  • By this point, the frogs are starting to tell parables about us.
    — Foreign Affairs, 10 July 2017
  • The coffee bean parable isn’t new, and it’s not always the same.
    — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 1 Oct. 2020
  • Unanchored from the world that helped birth it, the play becomes a parable.
    — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2019
  • The whole film plays out like a long parable based on Kipling’s poem.
    — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, 12 Apr. 2018
  • That double turnover play is the perfect parable for the Cougars.
    — Norma Gonzalez, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Sep. 2021
  • In the parable, two men walking along the road encounter a half-frozen snake.
    — Glenn Garvin, miamiherald, 3 June 2018
  • Some of the pieces read like poems; some like parables, some like punch lines.
    — Bradley Babendir, New Republic, 10 July 2017
  • There’s a parable about a frog in a boiling pot of water on a stove.
    — Jenny Aurthur, Longreads, 4 May 2018
  • The idea is to really bring the parables to life through song and humor.
    — Jessi Virtusio, Post-Tribune, 15 Feb. 2018
  • At one point, Jobs pleaded his case with a parable of sorts.
    — Claire Zillman, Fortune, 25 Sep. 2017
  • Jones turns to the Bible parable of Cain, who killed his brother Able out of jealousy.
    — Saphara Harrell, oregonlive, 18 Apr. 2021
  • The Hachiya, while worth waiting for, is still a parable on patience.
    — Carla Lalli Music, Bon Appétit, 23 Jan. 2020
  • There's a little bit of a parable in this fishing thing.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 7 Apr. 2022
  • Jesus touched on this with the parable of the Good Samaritan.
    — Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 26 Dec. 2020
  • Jesus touched on this with the parable of the Good Samaritan.
    — Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 26 Dec. 2020
  • Jesus touched on this with the parable of the Good Samaritan.
    — Victoria Murphy, Town & Country, 25 Dec. 2020
  • Jesus touched on this with the parable of the Good Samaritan.
    — Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 26 Dec. 2020
  • Jesus touched on this with the parable of the Good Samaritan.
    — Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 26 Dec. 2020
  • In between the parables, there are songs that include lyrics from hymns.
    — Brooke Coughlan, Cincinnati.com, 22 July 2019
  • The pontiff took as his central text the parable of the Good Samaritan.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Oct. 2020
  • The name 99 Plus 1 is a reference to a Biblical parable of the lost sheep, Cizek said.
    — Emily Goodykoontz, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Sep. 2021
  • As a parable of the power of sports, the story is irresistible.
    — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2019
  • The Ramblers are less of a parable and more of a paragon for the beauty of college basketball.
    — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Mar. 2018
  • No preachments are preached, no parables are dwelled on.
    — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 9 Dec. 2017
  • And a British teen sings a timely parable about consent.
    — Raisa Bruner, Time, 19 Jan. 2018
  • Some people come to listen, some to vent, some to mull the parables through fogs of addiction or mental illness.
    — Moriah Ratner, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2024
  • Jameson seeks accounts of its daily life instead of parables of repression, and finds them in long novels by Günter Grass and Uwe Tellkamp.
    — Mark Greif, Harper's Magazine, 26 July 2024

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