proverb

How To Use proverb In A Sentence

• Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience. 
• Unfortunately, the group's dalliance with satanism proved to be their undoing, the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back.
• I am labouring here to contradict an old proverb, and make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, namely, to convert a bare 'haugh' and 'brae', of about The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2
• There was another pause; the proverbial dilatoriness of watched pots was never more clearly exemplified. Wessex Tales
• The Democratic political calculation with ObamaCare is the proverbial boiling frog: Gradually introduce a health-care entitlement by hiding the true costs, hook the middle class on new subsidies until they become unrepealable, but try to delay the adverse consequences and major new tax hikes so voters don't make the connection between their policy and the economic wreckage. The ObamaCare Writedowns
• Plus, too many black children see school as a place where they're supposed to get reprimanded and putting black educators as main executioner; we're essentially fortifying centuries-old traditions of promoting blacks as overseer in the proverbial plantation. Jose Vilson: Why Black/Latino Male Teachers aren't as Effective in the Classroom... Yet
• I was notorious for talking myself straight into a proverbial brick wall, and that was something I certainly didn't want to do in this situation.
• Some of these examples are maxims, precepts, quips, proverbs and epigrams.
• The title of the movie refers to the proverbial elephant in the living room - the big problem that is ignored for so long that people are no longer able to recognize it.
• When derided for mounting a pair of Government "bluchers," tied over bare feet, with bits of glaring tassel-string from his camel-saddle, he quoted the proverb, "Whoso liveth with a people forty days becomes of them. The Land of Midian — Volume 1