fable
Example Sentences
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Bernard Suits, a philosopher who focused on sports, disagreed, and he drew on Aesop’s fable of the ant and the grasshopper in his inventive rebuttal.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2026
This fable revives a very old and toxic lie.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026
Branches spring forth from paintings and every nook is a nod to something born of a fable.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2026
The 2026 Oscar-nominated animated shorts mix the past and the present, fable and nonfiction.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 16, 2026
It was a rumor, a fable, but it was a rumor and fable from which marvels emerged, carried by camels across the desert to fire the imaginations of folk the world over.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
Vocabulary lists containing fable
Ancient Greece - Introductory
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Literary Genres - Introductory
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Reading: Literature - Literary Genres - Introductory
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