parables
Example Sentences
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His genial demeanour and penchant for folksy parables belie a past as a wily guerrilla fighter and ruthless political survivor.
From Barron's • Jan. 12, 2026
But among contemporary socio-economic parables, Mr. Park’s latest is an amusingly cutting one.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 24, 2025
There are lengthy jokes, a smattering of horror, some nonfiction, even romances, poetry and parables.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 12, 2024
Baldwin spoke after Brando, extemporaneously and in parables about Black Sambo and Detroit’s relationship to Saigon and integration in the South.
From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 2023
His punishment is the Word, and his deficiencies are failures of words—as when he grows impatient with translation and strikes out precariously on his own, telling parables in his wildly half-baked Kikongo.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
