How to Use parable in a Sentence

parable

noun

• He told the children a parable about the importance of forgiveness.
• By this point, the frogs are starting to tell parables about us.
  — Foreign Affairs, 10 July 2017
• Some of the pieces read like poems; some like parables, some like punch lines.
  — Bradley Babendir, New Republic, 10 July 2017
• There’s a parable about a frog in a boiling pot of water on a stove.
  — Jenny Aurthur, Longreads, 4 May 2018
• The whole film plays out like a long parable based on Kipling’s poem.
  — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, 12 Apr. 2018
• Maybe a bit like the characters in our parable.
  — Big Think, 6 Nov. 2025
• In between the parables, there are songs that include lyrics from hymns.
  — Brooke Coughlan, Cincinnati.com, 22 July 2019
• Unanchored from the world that helped birth it, the play becomes a parable.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2019
• In the parable, two men walking along the road encounter a half-frozen snake.
  — Glenn Garvin, miamiherald, 3 June 2018
• The parables are amazing crowd work, almost joke-telling, right?
  — Hazlitt, 3 Apr. 2024
• All that remains is a parable of a woman who is not believed.
  — Teju Cole, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2018
• The idea is to really bring the parables to life through song and humor.
  — Jessi Virtusio, Post-Tribune, 15 Feb. 2018
• That double turnover play is the perfect parable for the Cougars.
  — Norma Gonzalez, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Sep. 2021
• The Hachiya, while worth waiting for, is still a parable on patience.
  — Carla Lalli Music, Bon Appétit, 23 Jan. 2020
• My first novel was a parable about the dangers of being fearful of it.
  — Astro Teller, Popular Mechanics, 17 Oct. 2017
• Not exactly a parable of light and joy, and no miracles here.
  — David Harsanyi, National Review, 9 Dec. 2020
• As a parable of the power of sports, the story is irresistible.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2019
• The screwball shifts in tone somehow cohere into a biting parable of haves and have-nots.
  — The Economist, 13 Feb. 2020
• What kind of message would prime Jeezy have presented without the pyrex parables in tow?
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 18 Dec. 2025
• These parables sometimes read like gibberish, talking both down and up to the reader.
  — Book Marks october 2, Literary Hub, 2 Oct. 2025
• Jesus touched on this with the parable of the Good Samaritan.
  — Victoria Murphy, Town & Country, 25 Dec. 2020
• Jesus touched on this with the parable of the Good Samaritan.
  — Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 26 Dec. 2020
• There’s an old parable of a person leaving the pub late at night and searching in vain for his keys under a streetlamp.
  — Michael J. Coren, Quartz, 20 July 2019
• Jones turns to the Bible parable of Cain, who killed his brother Able out of jealousy.
  — Saphara Harrell, oregonlive, 18 Apr. 2021
• Then there’s this weird other, like Mae got really into parables.
  — William Earl, Variety, 25 Sep. 2025
• The Ramblers are less of a parable and more of a paragon for the beauty of college basketball.
  — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Mar. 2018
• The pontiff took as his central text the parable of the Good Samaritan.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Oct. 2020
• Like the parable of the blind men and the elephant, Benji’s is a different culinary beast.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 23 Oct. 2019
• Stuck since Tuesday, the container ship has become a parable of the risks of megaships.
  — David Clark Scott, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Mar. 2021
• Obanor referenced the parable of David and Goliath after the game.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 19 Mar. 2021