fable

Example Sentences

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A fable of self-erasure plays out, elegantly translated by Sasha Dugdale.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

Not far behind is Ryan Coogler's "Sinners," a vampire fable about America's difficult racial history, with five nominations.

From Barron's • Mar. 1, 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

As the creature who hoists men on their own petards in the ferociously feminist Frankenstein fable, Stone won her second Oscar.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 5, 2026

Her misunderstanding would have been comic had we read of it in a romantic fable.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein