How to Use allegory in a Sentence

allegory

noun

• To him, the story is an allegory for God’s love of mankind.
  — Laura Newberry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 June 2019
• Time has passed for it to be seen as an allegory for wars in Iraq or Afghanistan.
  — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 1 Mar. 2024
• Netflix also lists the use of pills as part of the wider allegory.
  — Rory Sullivan, CNN, 7 Aug. 2020
• The song is sort of an allegory of feeling lost and getting through it.
  — Anne Nickoloff, cleveland, 28 Sep. 2021
• Most of the transplants died—an allegory, in Wiley’s view, for the failure of the colonial project.
  — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2022
• The book was read at the time as an allegory of the rise of the Nazis; Jünger, though a figure of the hard right, ultimately found the Nazis déclassé.
  — Thomas Meaney, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2021
• Plenty might find in that some sort of allegory for a battle for the soul of soccer.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2020
• The show is a thriller, a romance, and an epic and sobering allegory about mothers.
  — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2023
• The Hazon Ish replied with an allegory from the Talmud.
  — New York Times, 25 Feb. 2021
• What came next was a detailed pitch for a World War II allegory.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 26 Oct. 2022
• It’s all a bit gross, but it’s also an allegory for the price of fame and artistic freedom.
  — Shannon Carlin, refinery29.com, 15 Aug. 2021
• The song is an allegory of feeling lost and getting through it.
  — Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 29 Sep. 2021
• Some commenters reading the story were quick to see the Shed’s tale as an allegory.
  — Eli Rosenberg, The Seattle Times, 8 Dec. 2017
• The narrator reads the picture book as an allegory about a gay bar.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 31 Dec. 2023
• The allegory describes human beings chained to the floor of a cave, forced to watch shadows of puppets cast on the wall by the light of a fire behind them.
  — Damon Linker, The Week, 8 Feb. 2022
• The Bible is an assortment of sacred myths, metaphors, and allegories born of a world very different than our own.
  — Jonathan L. Walton, Time, 22 June 2018
• It was conceived as an allegory about the failure to act on climate change.
  — New York Times, 9 Dec. 2021
• And so, in the midst of a nightmare, Rushdie wrote one of his most enjoyable books, and an allegory of the necessity and the resilience of art.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2023
• But as with so many allegories, its meaning is many-layered.
  — Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2023
• Aronofsky claims that the film is a biblical allegory, and there are hints of this throughout.
  — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 20 Sep. 2017
• Falla’s evocations are of his own time and place, not a trucking in allegories.
  — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2023
• The struggle to find a voice became a personal quest for Wang and an allegory for China as a whole.
  — Ian Johnson, Foreign Affairs, 19 Dec. 2023
• Some commenters reading the story were quick to see the Shed's story as an allegory.
  — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 10 Dec. 2017
• The story becomes a sharp allegory of the treatment of women.
  — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2022
• Does the Garden of Eden allegory seem plausible to you?
  — and David Noyce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Aug. 2023
• Wilson’s career thus far — the stops, the starts, the success — can also be explained with an allegory.
  — Helena Andrews-Dyer, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2023
• In an allegory for the city and suburbs, the song is about a couple that has broken up and wants to get back together again, says Handlon.
  — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 11 Mar. 2022
• The Cursed is your classic cautionary tale about the price of greed and bigotry, and less an allegory about the unruliness of nature.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 17 Feb. 2022
• The ur-text of every trip is the search for love, for which traveling itself is only an allegory.
  — Adam Gopnik, Town & Country, 17 June 2022
• The sequoia’s fate is an Icarian allegory, met not by flying too close to the sun, but by stretching too far from its roots.
  — Thayer Walker, Scientific American, 29 Dec. 2016

Last Updated: 9 May 2024