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

As it draws to a close, Hwang’s lethal playground games are cautionary parables about tribalism driven by greed.

From Salon • Jun. 27, 2025

To take one of the most famous Kafka parables, “Before the Law”: “This door was meant for you and you alone and now I’m going to shut it.”

From Seattle Times • Oct. 18, 2023

The boy was brought before the chief and asked if he knew us and if he had ever heard us speak parables in the white man’s language.

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