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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:

When they do so, they will find that parable of the widow's cruse--a marvelous tidbit on the rewards of vigorous consumption spending as opposed to parsimony, niggardliness, and thrift.
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.
The sad story of the Coalition for the Homeless, and of its decline from the moral pinnacle it once occupied, is a parable of that failure of vision.
The president's defenders portray Flytrap as a parable of how the law, misapplied, can undermine the president.
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.