How to Use allegory in a Sentence

allegory

noun
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  • Netflix also lists the use of pills as part of the wider allegory.
    — Rory Sullivan, CNN, 7 Aug. 2020
  • The song is sort of an allegory of feeling lost and getting through it.
    — Anne Nickoloff, cleveland, 28 Sep. 2021
  • 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
  • The song is an allegory of feeling lost and getting through it.
    — Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 29 Sep. 2021
  • To him, the story is an allegory for God’s love of mankind.
    — Laura Newberry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 June 2019
  • The show is a thriller, a romance, and an epic and sobering allegory about mothers.
    — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2023
  • It was conceived as an allegory about the failure to act on climate change.
    — New York Times, 9 Dec. 2021
  • The story becomes a sharp allegory of the treatment of women.
    — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2022
  • It’s all a bit gross, but it’s also an allegory for the price of fame and artistic freedom.
    — Shannon Carlin, refinery29.com, 15 Aug. 2021
  • Aronofsky claims that the film is a biblical allegory, and there are hints of this throughout.
    — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 20 Sep. 2017
  • But as with so many allegories, its meaning is many-layered.
    — Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2023
  • The allegory describes human beings chained to the floor of a cave, forced to watch shadows of puppets cast on the wall by the light of a fire behind them.
    — Damon Linker, The Week, 8 Feb. 2022
  • Some commenters reading the story were quick to see the Shed’s tale as an allegory.
    — Eli Rosenberg, The Seattle Times, 8 Dec. 2017
  • Falla’s evocations are of his own time and place, not a trucking in allegories.
    — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Some commenters reading the story were quick to see the Shed's story as an allegory.
    — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 10 Dec. 2017
  • The move comes as peanut allegories have emerged as a concern for passengers with severe nut allergies.
    — Ben Mutzabaugh, USA TODAY, 10 July 2018
  • But in the old allegory, the tortoise keeps plodding along and ultimately wins.
    — Heather Knight, SFChronicle.com, 19 Oct. 2019
  • So the next monster must be a potent vehicle for allegory.
    — Noah Charney, Esquire, 17 Oct. 2013
  • The Potter films and original books can be read as an allegory about the fight against prejudice.
    — Pam Grossman, The Atlantic, 25 Aug. 2019
  • 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
  • Does the Garden of Eden allegory seem plausible to you?
    — and David Noyce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Aug. 2023
  • The Hazon Ish replied with an allegory from the Talmud.
    — New York Times, 25 Feb. 2021
  • This is a fairy tale of sorts, an allegory of self-empowerment for women.
    — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 9 Mar. 2018
  • The struggle to find a voice became a personal quest for Wang and an allegory for China as a whole.
    — Ian Johnson, Foreign Affairs, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Stories like this become allegories, and optimism encourages us to hold on to our stuff.
    — Abigail Greenbaum, The Atlantic, 9 Mar. 2016
  • But the feelings of being a teenager out of step with your own body are universal enough to transcend any term-paper allegory.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 28 June 2019
  • 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
  • Nonsense, say many others: Both allegory and word usage evolve with the times.
    — Ted Anthony, ajc, 16 Mar. 2023

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