How to Use fable in a Sentence

fable

noun
  • The story that he won the battle single-handedly is a mere fable.
  • He combines fact and fable to make a more interesting story.
  • Slow and steady wins the race, or so goes the fable.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 2 Feb. 2026
  • Or throw it back with some age-old fables or fairy tales.
    — Maya Silver, Outside, 20 Jan. 2026
  • The film is a fable with a modern twist.
    — Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 9 Jan. 2026
  • So the fable ends, with a lesson.
    — Jan Steyn, The Dial, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Ajon [Singh] talked a lot about that fable of the two wolves.
    — Damon Wise, Deadline, 28 Sep. 2026
  • The lives of the saints to me are kind of like horrible fables.
    — Erik Morse, Vogue, 31 Mar. 2023
  • This is based on a Greek fable of Aesop’s.
    — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 14 Aug. 2025
  • The lion and the mouse are sitting on the open book that contains the fable.
    — Kathi Santora, baltimoresun.com, 11 Nov. 2019
  • This film is an anti-war fable that talks about the common origin of all wars.
    — Holly Jones, Variety, 13 June 2022
  • Will there be fables about musical sand dunes on Mars?
    — Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The home-team advantage is a fable, and not just in football.
    — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 8 Jan. 2020
  • On the car radio, a fable was told as dancers mimicked bears, wolves, owls, rabbits and frogs.
    — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 3 Aug. 2020
  • For them these were like fables, old wives’ tales, useless musings that brought only more hunger.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 12 Aug. 2022
  • His storytelling has something of the fable about it.
    — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The leaps and swerves seem closer to poetry or fable or song than to the novel as such.
    — James Wood, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2019
  • They can be thought of as fables without the intention to deceit.
    — Greg Licholai, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • The movie is a fable of winning, of beating the house every time, without much of a dark side.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 15 June 2022
  • The title refers to a story-fable about a horse that runs away, only to turn up at a time of crisis.
    — Hillel Italie, Fortune, 1 June 2026
  • There is this Indian fable of a king whose heart resided in a parrot.
    — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Yes, this is an adaptation of the famous fable about the tiny chicken who thinks the sky is falling.
    — Josh Spiegel, Vulture, 24 July 2024
  • Both fables and translations are forms of constrained writing.
    — Jan Steyn, The Dial, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Remember, in Aesop’s fable about the hare and the tortoise, slow and steady won the race.
    — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 20 Aug. 2026
  • Swift’s dismay about a powerful ex became a fable for any girl courted by an older guy.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The problem was that the Pope read the fable of the cicada in a different way.
    — Nuno Castel-Branco, Scientific American, 9 July 2021
  • This book is drawn from a Dena’ina fable and tells the story of a young orphan named Chia who lives with a rich man.
    — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Nov. 2019
  • As a political fable this is potent stuff.
    — Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 9 Apr. 2026
  • This fable includes abuse and hatred, darkness, magic, love.
    — The Know, Denver Post, 31 Aug. 2025
  • The sly expression, the slightness of stature, the ears befitting a fable.
    — New York Times, 15 Dec. 2020

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