PARABLE in a Sentence
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Example sentences for PARABLE, such as:
1. Let us apply to our own conduct the lesson that this parable teaches.
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Meanings and Examples of PARABLE
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parable
n. short, simple story teaching moral or religious lesson
Classic Sentence:
1 His courtesy of manner rang a little false and Stephen looked at the English convert with the same eyes as the elder brother in the parable may have turned on the prodigal.
2 Thus he discoursed gravely and paternally; in default of examples, he invented parables, going directly to the point, with few phrases and many images, which characteristic formed the real eloquence of Jesus Christ.
Example Sentence:
1 I have myself - I tell it you without parable - been a worldly, dissipated, restless man.
2 Let us apply to our own conduct the lesson that this parable teaches.
3 The contrasting story of BlackBerry's decline – its new plan will see it focus on a diminishing niche of business users – is a parable of how quickly modern tastes and technologies can change.