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How to use parable in a sentence

18 example sentences · noun, verb, adjective

Parable means a short narrative illustrating a lesson (usually religious/moral) by comparison or analogy. Example: “In the New Testament the parables told by Jesus Christ convey His message, as in "The parable of the prodigal son".”

Examples of parable by meaning

nounA short narrative illustrating a lesson (usually religious/moral) by comparison or analogy.

  • In the New Testament the parables told by Jesus Christ convey His message, as in "The parable of the prodigal son".
  • Catholic homilies normally draw on at least one Biblical lecture, often parables.

More sentences with parable

  • The scholar thinks the quote and the parable were spoken on different occasions and only by accident were brought together here.From the entry by accident
  • The judge in the parable granted the widow's suit merely because she lay upon him, and was troublesome to him.From the entry lie upon
  • Let’s look at the parable of the burger-flipper for a second.2021 December 20, Sophie Yarin, “Terms of unemployment: Examining the youth work crisis”, in The Daily Item, volume 142, number 320, Lynn…. From the entry burger-flipper
  • Let us consider the parables of the hidden treasure and the pearl of great price.2019 July, Catherine Maresca, “The Pearl and the Hidden Treasure”, in Violence and Nonviolence in Scripture: Helping Children Understand…. From the entry kindom
  • You've intrigued me with the idea that certain parables are often misinterpreted and therefore mispreached.2012, Jeffrey D. Arthurs, Craig Brian Larson, Interpretation and Application, page 48. From the entry mispreach
  • The film is a parable of magical entertainment's resuscitative power in a time of depression.1994, Laurence Goldstein, The American Poet at the Movies: A Critical History, page 95. From the entry resuscitative
  • But to audiences who appreciate the collision of hyperliteracy with parables from the tabloids, she’s an outstanding M.C.2007 September 6, Virginia Heffernan, “A Pop Savant, Up Late and Armed With Wit”, in New York Times. From the entry hyperliteracy
  • You may remember Brazil, Terry Gilliam's Orwellesque parable that only major amounts of protest saved from permanent butchery by the studio.2007, Royal S. Brown, Film Musings: A Selected Anthology from Fanfare Magazine, page 134. From the entry Orwellesque
  • One is known as the "sweetening parable," that is to say a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.1999, Eli Yassif, The Hebrew Folktale: History, Genre, Meaning, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 372. From the entry a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down
  • I never dreamt I’d remember that wine-ology parable.”1991, Cathie Pelletier, The Weight of Winter, page 113. From the entry wine-ology
  • Joyce draws upon Christ's parable of the Good Samaritan to make Bloom's unassuming act of comradeliness an instance of Agape.1972, Richard Ellmann, chapter VII, in Ulysses on the Liffey, Oxford University Press, page 146. From the entry comradeliness
  • The use of parable by Kafka marks his most concentrated effort to examine the space between language and that which is beyond language.2017 May 16, Jerry Stuger, “Kafka and Autism. The Undisclosed Logic Behind Kafka’s Work”, in Journal of Autism and Developmental…. From the entry figurative
  • Do you think of another parable that, because of our cultural distance, we miss the point, we miss the surprise, and we mispreach?2012, Jeffrey D. Arthurs, Craig Brian Larson, Interpretation and Application, page 48. From the entry mispreach
  • Old Man and the Sea as an example of open literature, which closely relates to the parable, and is the literature of agoraphilia.2005, Nigel De Juan Hatton, American Anxieties, Foreign Landscapes, page 65. From the entry agoraphilia
  • Don’t be put off by the mushroom monsters – this is a fully realised human parable, with TLOU evolving into a brutal, passionate, post-apocalyptic western par excellence.2023 January 22, Barbara Ellen, “The week in TV: The Last of Us; Maternal; The Traitors US; Break Point”, in The Observer. From the entry TLOU
  • House of Representatives, “Trump loyalists” have “lashed themselves to the presidential mast” — and Kruse stresses that “if Watergate is an American parable, most of them will go down too.”2019 November 27, Alex Henderson, “Watergate shows unwavering devotion to Trump will not end well for ‘all the president’s men’”, in…. From the entry lash oneself to the mast

Meaning of parable

  1. noun A short narrative illustrating a lesson (usually religious/moral) by comparison or analogy.
  2. verb To represent by parable.
  3. adjective That can easily be prepared or procured; obtainable.

Full definition of parable

Questions about parable in a sentence

How do you use parable in a sentence?
Parable is used as a noun, verb and adjective. For example: “In the New Testament the parables told by Jesus Christ convey His message, as in "The parable of the prodigal son".”
What is a short sentence with parable?
“I never dreamt I’d remember that wine-ology parable.””
What does parable mean?
Parable means a short narrative illustrating a lesson (usually religious/moral) by comparison or analogy.

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