How to Use allegory in a Sentence

allegory

noun

• This was a movie that didn't just acknowledge the allegories of Marvel's X-Men comics but embraced them.
  — Peter Rubin, WIRED, 7 June 2019
• None of this can be defended as a trendy political allegory as some reviewers contend.
  — Armond White, National Review, 19 July 2019
• However, some fans believe Nemo never survived the attack, and the movie is just an allegory of Marlon dealing with the stages of grief.
  — Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 16 Apr. 2019
• Soho does bear more than a passing resemblance to his creator, and the series serves as an allegory for the lasting devastation of apartheid and its twin companions, greed and guilt.
  — Julie Belcove, WSJ, 4 Dec. 2018
• That’s where The Bachelorette makes an excellent allegory.
  — Joanna Weiss, BostonGlobe.com, 23 July 2019
• The dancers filled and emptied the cavernous space with different props and projection surfaces in an allegory of the messes of human history, constantly torn down and made anew.
  — Washington Post, 14 June 2019
• The roundelay in which Nadia is trapped is an allegory for the compulsions and diminishing returns of addiction, the sense that death is overtaking life.
  — The New York Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2019
• Some readers have detected an allegory for the Chinese state—a people imprisoned by their mindset, cocooned in a bubble that must eventually be pierced.
  — The Economist, 22 June 2019
• 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
• From a scene of pomegranates on the desert sand to a person slamming their head onto the ground, Gaga's video presents the film's symbols in her own allegory of pain.
  — Tomás Mier, PEOPLE.com, 18 Sep. 2020
• 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
• The four-part allegory is stylistically rich, playing with form to trouble the present.
  — Zoe Guy, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2024
• While some believe the film to be bloated and boring, with its Petrarch quotes and fall of Rome allegory, others find the madness of Coppola’s futuristic fable thrilling thanks to the density of its oddities.
  — Zoe Guy, Vulture, 16 May 2024

Last Updated: 2 Oct 2024