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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:

I'd like to end my side our conversation with a parable.
Its protagonist, a red-neck propane salesman, is deemed the heir to Roseanne and Archie Bunker . Another favorite is WB's tongue-in-cheek action series Buffy the Vampire Slayer , about a 15-year-old super-heroine: "A postfeminist parable on the challenge of balancing one's personal and work life" ( Time ).
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.
So in the real economy, as in the parable, productivity growth in one sector seems to have led to job gains in the other.
The movie, without seeming to realize it, turns into a romantic parable about the joys of being absorbed by a conglomerate.