Example sentences for: fable

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

  • One of the most popular books of the 19th century, (Ebenezer Cobham) Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable was widely accepted by the literati of the day.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • After seeing Fritz Lang’s premonitory fable of human regimentation, Metropolis, Hitler wanted the master of the dark spectacle to make publicity films for him.


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