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Example sentences for: proverb

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

In 1971 the late Russian paremiologist, G. Permiakov, tried to establish a proverb minimum, and he found that every Russian adult knew more than 800 proverbs and sayings.
Because of frequent and ironic use, however, the proverb changed its denotation to the opposite in Standard German.
If I have regretted keeping quite once, I have regretted my speech many times over, another proverb admonishes in my left ear, while at my right there whispers in Arabic and then in English: idhaa kaana al-kalaam min fiDDah fa as-sukuut min dhahab: If speech is silver, silence is golden.
To paraphrase the German proverb: it's the stress that makes the meaning.
The other appendix deals with the structure of the Russian proverb and gives separate sections of analytical proverbs, metaphorical ones, similes--proverbial comparisons (about 100), as well as contrasting couplets and negational proverbs, etc.