How to Use fable in a Sentence

fable

noun

• The story that he won the battle single-handedly is a mere fable.
• He combines fact and fable to make a more interesting story.
• The lives of the saints to me are kind of like horrible fables.
  — Erik Morse, Vogue, 31 Mar. 2023
• The lion and the mouse are sitting on the open book that contains the fable.
  — Kathi Santora, baltimoresun.com, 11 Nov. 2019
• Think tortoise and hare fable: slow and steady wins the race.
  — Henry Devries, Forbes, 18 Aug. 2022
• WeWork, in a way, is a fable from the era that just ended.
  — Lauren Puckett, Town & Country, 4 Apr. 2021
• The problem was that the Pope read the fable of the cicada in a different way.
  — Nuno Castel-Branco, Scientific American, 9 July 2021
• This book is drawn from a Dena’ina fable and tells the story of a young orphan named Chia who lives with a rich man.
  — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Nov. 2019
• The movie is a fable of winning, of beating the house every time, without much of a dark side.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 15 June 2022
• The home-team advantage is a fable, and not just in football.
  — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 8 Jan. 2020
• The leaps and swerves seem closer to poetry or fable or song than to the novel as such.
  — James Wood, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2019
• In the fable that is the first book of Genesis, Adam comes to life when his Creator breathes into him.
  — Heather Lanier, Longreads, 10 Jan. 2023
• Who doesn’t love a good frightful fable every now and then?
  — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 2 Jan. 2021
• On the car radio, a fable was told as dancers mimicked bears, wolves, owls, rabbits and frogs.
  — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 3 Aug. 2020
• If there ever were a time for an escapist fable, it’s 2020.
  — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 15 Dec. 2020
• Or the interior of Wall-E’s truck in that 2008 sci-fi fable?
  — John Wenzel, The Know, 6 Oct. 2019
• This film is an anti-war fable that talks about the common origin of all wars.
  — Holly Jones, Variety, 13 June 2022
• The story is the stuff of fables: A boy, a girl and two fathers who concoct a feud to try to bring them together.
  — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2023
• For both Chou and Ang, the movie signified a sort of reclamation over an age-old fable that the two had grown up with.
  — NBC News, 28 Sep. 2020
• The sly expression, the slightness of stature, the ears befitting a fable.
  — New York Times, 15 Dec. 2020
• Yes, this is an adaptation of the famous fable about the tiny chicken who thinks the sky is falling.
  — Josh Spiegel, Vulture, 11 Jan. 2021
• The Lafayette Square fable was one in a long list of stories we were forced to consume during an election year.
  — Gerard Baker, WSJ, 14 June 2021
• They can be thought of as fables without the intention to deceit.
  — Greg Licholai, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
• What unfolds, like a La Fontaine fable, is all the more poignant for its inevitability.
  — Claire Messud, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
• The Oreo fable illustrates what's happened in the stock market.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 13 Nov. 2019
• For them these were like fables, old wives’ tales, useless musings that brought only more hunger.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 12 Aug. 2022
• The Welfare Queen myth was a racist fable that reinforced some of the ugliest stereotypes about Black and poor people.
  — John Blake, CNN, 16 May 2021
• Like the boy who cried wolf fable, the network heads didn’t entirely believe Mulaney at first.
  — Omar Sanchez, EW.com, 27 Dec. 2019
• Perhaps that is why so many Syrians adhere to a fable that tends to absolve their own side.
  — Robert F. Worth, The New York Review of Books, 6 Feb. 2020
• In the Greek fable of Icarus and Daedalus, the former ignores his father’s warnings about hubris and, in particular, flying too close to the sun.
  — Jeff Robbins, Orange County Register, 8 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024