fables
Example Sentences
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And that feels real too, as if it were this fable’s slap-you-awake moral.
From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2025
The references are specific, certainly, but they leave the door open for the world to plug into the fable's energy.
From Salon • Jun. 8, 2022
Despite the fable’s intention of teaching a lesson that involves the value of planning for the future, I always find myself identifying with the grasshopper — and how could you not?
From Seattle Times • Jun. 29, 2018
Even more crucially, when it came time to cast the transformational figure at her fable’s center, she found the real thing.
From Washington Post
It may appear superfluous to point this fable's moral; But—teeth that could crush chain-mail seem scarce shaped for mumbling coral!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, October 21st 1893 by Various
