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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:

Not so fast, says Weiner: Said's childhood was not "the parable of Palestinian identity" marked by dispossession from a beloved homeland and the subsequent pain of exile.
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.
But that is not the ultimate point of my parable.
The president's defenders portray Flytrap as a parable of how the law, misapplied, can undermine the president.
So it was probably inevitable that her life and music would turn into fodder for a cautionary parable about the counterculture, complete with the kind of lingering death that lends itself readily to familiar depictions of classical musicians' physical and mental illness.