Example sentences for: fable

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

  • The three-candidate runoff that results is a loose parody of the '96 presidential election, which makes for "a moral fable with rare comic bite" (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone ). ( Slate 's David Edelstein the film "exuberantly caustic."

  • Compare that pale fable with the force of the words of Marcus, a student of the gnostic teacher Valentinus (c.

  • After snagging the grand prize at Sundance and the best first film prize at Cannes, this fable of the redemptive power of poetry wins more praise in its general release.

  • More important, he distills from the novel a mournfully wry fable on the all-consuming convolutions of jealousy.

  • Her father, a small-town pediatrician, had somehow gone to medical school without having gone to college, or possibly even (here we begin to slip into the realm of Marquez-like fable) finishing high school.


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