PARABLE in a Sentence

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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.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
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.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—A HARD BISHOPRIC FOR A GOOD BISHOP
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.