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Example sentences for: parable

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

A morality play about a garbage man's ascent to literary fame, it is deemed "a perfect modern parable" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ), with devastating send-ups of celebrity and the publishing world.
He read the parable of the talents from St. Matthew's Gospel, with its praise for those who get a good return on their investments.
Dario Fo's play Accidental Death of an Anarchist proved that the Grouchoesque clown could be an anarchic avenger, driving fascists to apoplexy; and Lina Wertmuller's Seven Beauties (1976), however gross and ham-handed, at least suggested that a concentration camp could function as a legitimate setting for a black-comic parable about a parasite's struggle to survive at all costs.
The movie, without seeming to realize it, turns into a romantic parable about the joys of being absorbed by a conglomerate.
Not a whodunnit at all, it's more like a postmodern western, the parable of an unruly patriarch driven to madness by a long line of unruly patriarchs before him; an impotent vigilante in search of something--anything--to shoot.