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
• 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.
  — 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
• Like the parable of the blind men and the elephant, Benji’s is a different culinary beast.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 23 Oct. 2019
• The parables are amazing crowd work, almost joke-telling, right?
  — Hazlitt, 3 Apr. 2024
• Taken as one, the story has the precision of a parable.
  — Andrew Klavan, WSJ, 4 June 2018
• The narrative puts a 2020s spin on the age-old parable of the promising child actor who goes off the rails later in life.
  — Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 June 2023
• All that remains is a parable of a woman who is not believed.
  — Teju Cole, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2018
• Here in the high Alps, amid the private jets, the helicopters and the fine cuisine, this struck me as a pretty good parable for our times.
  — Gerard Baker, WSJ, 24 Jan. 2020
• Some of the paintings are large, and even the smaller ones amplify simple stalks and roots into parables of ecological peril and promise.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024