parables

Example Sentences

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Kafka’s parables of angst and displacement are naturally diasporic.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

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

The first and second seasons are light parables that take on toxic masculinity, the weight of fatherhood and healing traumatic personal legacies.

From Salon • Jul. 19, 2024

“It is similar to telling parables, but in the white man’s language,” I concluded.

From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah