parables

Example Sentences

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But among contemporary socio-economic parables, Mr. Park’s latest is an amusingly cutting one.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 24, 2025

Buffett’s lessons and parables remind me of the volatility in technology stocks this year.

From Barron's • Dec. 17, 2025

I was so green in the world that I hadn’t accepted there could be parables without a moral, questions without an answer.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 2025

But Martin’s stories, along with being informed by actual history, are parables of power struggles among the ruling classes.

From Salon • Jul. 18, 2024

As for this truck-and-fanbelt story, the Reverend loved to speak in parables, and we could surely spot one coming.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver