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
• That double turnover play is the perfect parable for the Cougars.
  — Norma Gonzalez, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Sep. 2021
• 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
• Like the parable of the blind men and the elephant, Benji’s is a different culinary beast.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 23 Oct. 2019
• 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
• Obanor referenced the parable of David and Goliath after the game.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 19 Mar. 2021
• The third persona, the Blonde, is a symbol, the pure and virginal creature of fairy tales and religious parables.
  — Elaine Showalter, The New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2020
• In answer, Jesus gives the parable of the Good Samaritan.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 26 Sep. 2022
• Stuck since Tuesday, the container ship has become a parable of the risks of megaships.
  — David Clark Scott, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Mar. 2021
• First, the life and death of Jessica Ney is a parable of the perils of opioid recovery.
  — Aubrey Nagle, Philly.com, 25 June 2018
• Remember what the rabbi said in his parable of the Pharisee and the Publican.
  — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 21 Dec. 2020
• The orchard as a metaphor dates to a parable in the Talmud, composed around the fourth century, of four sages who entered the Pardes, the orchard of knowledge of the Torah.
  — Talia Lavin, The New Republic, 13 Feb. 2020
• The screwball shifts in tone somehow cohere into a biting parable of haves and have-nots.
  — The Economist, 13 Feb. 2020
• There’s an old parable of a person leaving the pub late at night and searching in vain for his keys under a streetlamp.
  — Michael J. Coren, Quartz, 20 July 2019
• But her story functions as a parable: the tale of a woman who, in trying to save herself, erects the regime that ruins her.
  — Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2019
• Not exactly a parable of light and joy, and no miracles here.
  — David Harsanyi, National Review, 9 Dec. 2020
• The bell sequence is, finally, a parable of the creative process: great art rests on some murky mixture of luck, lies, and witchcraft.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2021
• The good book reminds us in the parable of the talents about properly investing in what we have been given.
  — Peter San Nicolas, Ramona Sentinel, 6 Sep. 2019
• Why not write a modern-day parable of Zimbabwe through the eyes of farm animals?
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024