Words similar to fable

Example sentences for: fable

How can you use “fable” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Truth, in the fable, would rather be naked than don the clothes of Falsehood, thus the naked Truth . I don't find the story appealing, but it appears in all references on the derivation of the expression.
This sounds like racy stuff, but critics say the story has the "structure and implacable momentum of a stern moral fable" (Holden, the New York Times ) and is more interested in dissecting the slow tragedy of the couple's disintegrating marriage than in high jinks.
Sometimes the author himself seems to float upward on a gust of wind, into the airy zones of fable, which seem to have been his instinctive home.
The reason for putting Brewer into the title (according to Rees) is that his book follows naturally in the tradition of ... Dictionary of Phrase and Fable [which] singled out words and phrases with tales to tell and did not attempt an unachievable comprehensiveness.
More important, he distills from the novel a mournfully wry fable on the all-consuming convolutions of jealousy.