Example sentences for: lucid

How can you use “lucid” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Both Boswell and Johnson wrote readable and lucid prose, and scholars who gloss their texts cannot resist their influence, which is all for the good.

  • His description toward the end of Climbing Mount Improbable of wasps enmeshed in Byzantine power struggles with fig trees is a model of nature writing, at once lyrical and lucid.

  • Among the books about Che that have just now come out, one by Jorge G. Castañeda, Compañero: The Life and Death of Che Guevara , offers an exceptionally lucid analysis of Che's life and doings, based on a tremendous amount of research both in Cuba and in American-government files.

  • I met Kael in the mid-1980s while I was writing criticism for the Village Voice , but only got to know her after she retired from The New Yorker . In general, she's a lot more lucid than, for instance, me.

  • By contrast, it seems calming to Brodkey's voice to find itself in a "true" first person and a lucid present tense.


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