Sample Sentences forparable (editor-reviewed)
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Many people have heard the parable of The Prodigal Son.parable = a short story told to teach a moral lesson
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Jesus often taught using a parable rather than a direct lecture.parable = moral teaching story
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The parable of The Good Samaritan was told to teach that compassion should be for all people, and that fulfilling the spirit of religious law is more important than fulfilling the letter of religious law. (source)parable = a short story told to teach a moral lesson
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My father mopped his brow again and launched into the parable of the one mustard seed falling on a barren place, and the other one on good soil. (source)
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Today she chose the parable of the Good Samaritan.† (source)
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When I chuckled at the older woman's invocation of the parable, she laughed, too.† (source)
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Mamaw often told a parable: A young man was sitting at home when a terrible rainstorm began.† (source)
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You want parables and proverbs, go to church.† (source)
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Read Luke 15:11 (parable of the lost son).† (source)
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He spoke in Asiatic parables that could not always be understood.† (source)
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It was like the Parable of the Lost Son in the Bible.† (source)
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My father loved to read parables aloud, and I had to listen to every word.† (source)
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Sophie knew the parable of how Jesus turned water into wine, but she had never taken it literally.† (source)
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The Confucian parables warn of it.† (source)
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Speaking abruptly I gave them a parable.† (source)
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Dust off some of your old parables.† (source)
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