How to Use fable in a Sentence

fable

1 of 2 noun

• The story that he won the battle single-handedly is a mere fable.
• He combines fact and fable to make a more interesting story.
• Slow and steady wins the race, or so goes the fable.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 2 Feb. 2026
• Or throw it back with some age-old fables or fairy tales.
  — Maya Silver, Outside, 20 Jan. 2026
• The film is a fable with a modern twist.
  — Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 9 Jan. 2026
• So the fable ends, with a lesson.
  — Jan Steyn, The Dial, 10 Mar. 2026
• The lives of the saints to me are kind of like horrible fables.
  — Erik Morse, Vogue, 31 Mar. 2023
• This is based on a Greek fable of Aesop’s.
  — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 14 Aug. 2025
• The lion and the mouse are sitting on the open book that contains the fable.
  — Kathi Santora, baltimoresun.com, 11 Nov. 2019
• This film is an anti-war fable that talks about the common origin of all wars.
  — Holly Jones, Variety, 13 June 2022
• Will there be fables about musical sand dunes on Mars?
  — Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025
• The home-team advantage is a fable, and not just in football.
  — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 8 Jan. 2020
• On the car radio, a fable was told as dancers mimicked bears, wolves, owls, rabbits and frogs.
  — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 3 Aug. 2020
• For them these were like fables, old wives’ tales, useless musings that brought only more hunger.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 12 Aug. 2022
• His storytelling has something of the fable about it.
  — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2025
• The leaps and swerves seem closer to poetry or fable or song than to the novel as such.
  — James Wood, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2019
• They can be thought of as fables without the intention to deceit.
  — Greg Licholai, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
• The movie is a fable of winning, of beating the house every time, without much of a dark side.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 15 June 2022
• The title refers to a story-fable about a horse that runs away, only to turn up at a time of crisis.
  — Hillel Italie, Fortune, 1 June 2026
• Yes, this is an adaptation of the famous fable about the tiny chicken who thinks the sky is falling.
  — Josh Spiegel, Vulture, 24 July 2024
• Both fables and translations are forms of constrained writing.
  — Jan Steyn, The Dial, 10 Mar. 2026
• Swift’s dismay about a powerful ex became a fable for any girl courted by an older guy.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2025
• The problem was that the Pope read the fable of the cicada in a different way.
  — Nuno Castel-Branco, Scientific American, 9 July 2021
• This book is drawn from a Dena’ina fable and tells the story of a young orphan named Chia who lives with a rich man.
  — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Nov. 2019
• As a political fable this is potent stuff.
  — Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 9 Apr. 2026
• This fable includes abuse and hatred, darkness, magic, love.
  — The Know, Denver Post, 31 Aug. 2025
• The sly expression, the slightness of stature, the ears befitting a fable.
  — New York Times, 15 Dec. 2020
• Perhaps that is why so many Syrians adhere to a fable that tends to absolve their own side.
  — Robert F. Worth, The New York Review of Books, 6 Feb. 2020
• The Oreo fable illustrates what's happened in the stock market.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 13 Nov. 2019
• On the left is the French original of a fable by Jean de La Fontaine.
  — Jan Steyn, The Dial, 10 Mar. 2026

fable

2 of 2 verb

• But why would a place as fabled as the Black Forest need a reference ecosystem?
  — Kendra Atleework, Longreads, 12 Mar. 2026
• And in a business where shoppers are seeking the fanciest, most advanced features, a long history, no matter how fabled, can be a liability.
  — Michael Ballaban, CNN Money, 9 May 2026
• Burnett described a world that felt ancient and almost fabled—wide, grey Yorkshire moors that stretched endlessly under heavy skies, so different from my own mountains and yet somehow carrying the same wildness.
  — Literary Hub, 23 Mar. 2026
• Widespread grief leads to new laws The catastrophic flooding that engulfed parts of Camp Mystic killed at least 136 people across Texas’ fabled Hill Country.
  — Holly Yan, CNN Money, 24 Sep. 2025
• The town is named for the Greek mythological creature Scylla, a sea monster with multiple heads that was fabled to terrorize sailors (most notably, the hero Odysseus) who dared to travel the water between Italy and Sicily.
  — Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 13 Jan. 2026
• Zuckerman recently acquired the famous, ultra-low-mileage 1965 Chick Iverson 356 SC from their friend Jerry Seinfeld‘s fabled Porsche collection.
  — Howard Walker, Robb Report, 15 Apr. 2026
• The leader of that rebellion, Pushpa Kamal Dahal—reverentially addressed by his comrades as Prachanda, or the Fiery One—was for years a mysterious figure, fabled for his victories against government forces, but essentially unknown.
  — Kapil Komireddi, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
• In the film, Gibb’s Jackson is the slightly comedic foil to Jean-Claude Van Damme’s tense and brooding Frank Dux as both fighters enter the Kumite, an underground martial arts tournament in Hong Kong’s fabled Kowloon Walled City.
  — Abid Rahman, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019