Fables can be categorized as a noun and a verb.
Verb |
||
| fable - To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction ; to write or utter what is not true. | ||
| fable - To feign; to invent; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely. | ||
Noun |
||
| fable - a short moral story (often with animal characters) | ||
| fable - a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events | ||
| fable - a deliberately false or improbable account |
| # | Sentence | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | noun | The fables written by Hans Christian Andersen, the most famous Dane in the world, made him an icon of world literature. | |
| 2. | noun | "The Crow and the Fox" is one of the most famous of La Fontaine's fables. | |
| 3. | noun | In Aesop’s fables, there is a tale titled “Sour Grapes”. | |
| 4. | noun | Our manager would always speak to us in fables. | |
| 5. | noun | The following passage is a quotation from a well-known fable. | |
| 6. | noun | The following passage was quoted from a well-known fable. | |
| 7. | noun | I regaled the devil; he gave me a fable. | |
| 8. | noun | Every fable ends up with a moral. | |
| 9. | noun | It's a fable. | |
| 10. | noun | Tom doesn't know the difference between a fable and a fairytale. | |
| 11. | noun | On another occasion they delighted themselves with listening to a dove cooing in the neighbouring wood, and upon Chloe inquiring what the bird meant by its note, Daphnis told her the well-known fable which is related to all who ask that question. | |
| 12. | noun | Daphnis and Chloe were delighted, but they regarded what they heard as a fable rather than as fact; and they inquired of Philetas, who and what this Love could be? Whether he was a boy or a bird? And what powers he could exert? | |
| 13. | noun | What's the difference between a fable and a fairytale? | |
| 14. | noun | This is the fable of the goat saying to the jackal: "Even when I graze, I watch you! " | |
| 15. | noun | This is the fable of the goat saying to the jackal: "Even when I graze, I watch!" |
| Sentence | |
|---|---|
| noun | |
| The fables written by Hans Christian Andersen, the most famous Dane in the world, made him an icon of world literature. | |
| "The Crow and the Fox" is one of the most famous of La Fontaine's fables. | |
| In Aesop’s fables, there is a tale titled “Sour Grapes”. | |
| Our manager would always speak to us in fables. | |
| The following passage is a quotation from a well-known fable. | |
| The following passage was quoted from a well-known fable. | |
| I regaled the devil; he gave me a fable. | |
| Every fable ends up with a moral. | |
| It's a fable. | |
| Tom doesn't know the difference between a fable and a fairytale. | |
| On another occasion they delighted themselves with listening to a dove cooing in the neighbouring wood, and upon Chloe inquiring what the bird meant by its note, Daphnis told her the well-known fable which is related to all who ask that question. | |
| Daphnis and Chloe were delighted, but they regarded what they heard as a fable rather than as fact; and they inquired of Philetas, who and what this Love could be? Whether he was a boy or a bird? And what powers he could exert? | |
| What's the difference between a fable and a fairytale? | |
| This is the fable of the goat saying to the jackal: "Even when I graze, I watch you! " | |
| This is the fable of the goat saying to the jackal: "Even when I graze, I watch!" | |