How to Use allegory in a Sentence

allegory

noun
  • In this place, the gyre is no longer allegory.
    — Alaa Alqaisi august 13, Literary Hub, 13 Aug. 2025
  • The song is sort of an allegory of feeling lost and getting through it.
    — Anne Nickoloff, cleveland, 28 Sep. 2021
  • Netflix also lists the use of pills as part of the wider allegory.
    — Rory Sullivan, CNN, 7 Aug. 2020
  • The song is an allegory of feeling lost and getting through it.
    — Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 29 Sep. 2021
  • Devil 2, in that way, might be viewed as an allegory.
    — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 12 May 2026
  • Trans allegories abound in horror fiction, but vampires just might be the hottest one of all.
    — Samantha Allen, Them., 22 Aug. 2025
  • Time has passed for it to be seen as an allegory for wars in Iraq or Afghanistan.
    — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Plenty might find in that some sort of allegory for a battle for the soul of soccer.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2020
  • It was conceived as an allegory about the failure to act on climate change.
    — New York Times, 9 Dec. 2021
  • The narrator reads the picture book as an allegory about a gay bar.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 31 Dec. 2023
  • The Persian text is a blend of ornate prose and verse dense with allegory and metaphor.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 9 Apr. 2026
  • The show is a thriller, a romance, and an epic and sobering allegory about mothers.
    — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2023
  • The rope being, of course, that allegory of that bond between kids and parents.
    — Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 25 Sep. 2024
  • Falla’s evocations are of his own time and place, not a trucking in allegories.
    — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2023
  • Trains that are promised to get to this destination are an allegory of a system.
    — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Feb. 2025
  • Aronofsky claims that the film is a biblical allegory, and there are hints of this throughout.
    — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 20 Sep. 2017
  • Some commenters reading the story were quick to see the Shed’s tale as an allegory.
    — Eli Rosenberg, The Seattle Times, 8 Dec. 2017
  • Is this the real world or an apocalyptic allegory of some kind?
    — Jenelle Riley, Variety, 14 Jan. 2026
  • The ur-text of every trip is the search for love, for which traveling itself is only an allegory.
    — Adam Gopnik, Town & Country, 17 June 2022
  • The story becomes a sharp allegory of the treatment of women.
    — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2022
  • Some commenters reading the story were quick to see the Shed's story as an allegory.
    — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 10 Dec. 2017
  • What came next was a detailed pitch for a World War II allegory.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 26 Oct. 2022
  • The Bible is an assortment of sacred myths, metaphors, and allegories born of a world very different than our own.
    — Jonathan L. Walton, Time, 22 June 2018
  • Wilson’s career thus far — the stops, the starts, the success — can also be explained with an allegory.
    — Helena Andrews-Dyer, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Most of the transplants died—an allegory, in Wiley’s view, for the failure of the colonial project.
    — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2022
  • Hawthorne’s tale is not just an allegory of the Revolution.
    — John Swansburg, The Atlantic, 15 June 2026
  • Seen through a child’s eyes, the film is an allegory that never loses its grounding in stark reality.
    — Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor, 17 Dec. 2025
  • The Potter films and original books can be read as an allegory about the fight against prejudice.
    — Pam Grossman, The Atlantic, 25 Aug. 2019
  • But there’s an awkwardness in the sequel that feels like the inevitable outcome of these movies stretching their allegories to their limits.
    — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 26 Nov. 2025
  • These are tales of misplacement and metamorphosis — humans as beasts, beasts as allegories.
    — Jan Steyn, The Dial, 10 Mar. 2026

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