How do you use Fable in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like story or allegory, plus the exact meaning.
Fable meaning
- A fictitious narrative intended to enforce some useful truth or precept, usually with animals, etc. as characters; an apologue. Prototypically, Aesop's Fables.
- Any story told to excite wonder; common talk; the theme of talk.
- Fiction; untruth; falsehood.
Synonyms of Fable
Using Fable
- The main meaning on this page is: A fictitious narrative intended to enforce some useful truth or precept, usually with animals, etc. as characters; an apologue. Prototypically, Aesop's Fables. | Any story told to excite wonder; common talk; the theme of talk. | Fiction; untruth; falsehood.
- Useful related words include: story, apologue, allegory, parable.
- In the example corpus, fable often appears in combinations such as: the fable, fable of, fable about.
Context around Fable
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 11 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Fable
- In this selection, "fable" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, maybe, primary, horror, art, glides and comes stand out and add context to how "fable" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 120 million fable of america and a japanese fable about killing. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "fable" sits close to words such as abject, accumulations and adi, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with fable
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Lionhead Studios, known for Fable, comes to mind. (8 words)
The nickname was a Japanese fable about killing hundreds with one sword. (12 words)
And now comes the main moral behind the fable Schimberg is crafting. (12 words)
Leichter centers her subtle and witty fable on the off-kilter power dynamics of home life, tearing her characters apart and leaving their stories in pieces, encouraging us to peer into the space between the fragments. (36 words)
Onam, founded on the fable of the return of a beloved fairy tale king banished by jealous Gods to the netherworld, has evolved over the years into a secular national festival and cultural holiday for Keralites. (36 words)
If this is Stirling playing god as she narrates her inner city fable of beautiful losers weathering the storm over the show’s seventy-minute duration, her creations aren’t that hard to recognise. (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
All the while, people who scoff at others for falling prey to disinformation widely retweeted the fable about Tate's pizza box.
All they’d have to do is unveil one or two first party games - maybe Fable and Avowed - and they’d have done it, because the bar has been set that low.
A weapon's blade dictates its attack and guard stats, attack type, and primary Fable Art which can be used in battle.
Goran Stolevski’s meditative horror-fable glides along with the poetic grace of a Terrence Malick drama, but with more gory transmogrification.
If this is Stirling playing god as she narrates her inner city fable of beautiful losers weathering the storm over the show’s seventy-minute duration, her creations aren’t that hard to recognise.
In a surprising move, Playground Games, the devs behind Forza Horizon racing games, are developing the new Fable.
In Reaver, I found a man who seemed like the Oscar Wilde of Fable 2 – resiliently and brilliantly himself.
Intellectually, I always appreciate a good reference to the scorpion and the frog fable, I don’t like it in the wrestling ring.
In the old fable, it was a child who perceived the stark reality and proclaimed the obvious, that the emperor had no clothes.
Leaving no boundaries, Kennedy’s prog-ridden “Fable of the Silent Son” meditates on lessons learned and runs for more than eight minutes.
Leichter centers her subtle and witty fable on the off-kilter power dynamics of home life, tearing her characters apart and leaving their stories in pieces, encouraging us to peer into the space between the fragments.
Like so many of Scorsese's movies, is essentially about how crime doesn't pay, but it also tells a fable about how the good guys don't always win.
Lionhead Studios, known for Fable, comes to mind.
Oshii took Shirow’s source material and arguably surpassed it, transforming an already heady science-fiction action drama into a proto-Kurzweil-ian fable about the dawn of machine intelligence.
The nickname was a Japanese fable about killing hundreds with one sword.
The result is a twist worthy of a fable with a thoughtful message by the end.
And now comes the main moral behind the fable Schimberg is crafting.
Games like Fable 2, Dragon Age 2, & Kingdom Come: Deliverance offer immersion without full customization.
It’s a grandiloquent $120 million fable of America’s imminent ruin, following the ancient Rome playbook, and a cinematic swing for the fences visible only to Coppola.
Onam, founded on the fable of the return of a beloved fairy tale king banished by jealous Gods to the netherworld, has evolved over the years into a secular national festival and cultural holiday for Keralites.
Common combinations with fable
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the fable 15×
- fable of 11×
- fable about 8×
- of fable 5×
- fable and 3×
- and fable 3×
- fable that 3×
- fable by 3×
- fable it 2×
- fable with 2×