Example sentences for: lyric

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

  • George, who lived from 1868 to 1933, is ranked high among German lyric poets for his elegant Symbolist visions.

  • There are periods in which the work fades into hermeticism; there are periods when it aspires to a lyric summing up, as in the four Seasons (1986), in which the shadow of the artist is projected onto a sequence of Johnsian montages.

  • But, since the advent of the LP and the gatefold sleeve with the printed lyrics and the college courses that study rock songs for their elusive allusiveness, pop texts have been freed from the first requirement of a Broadway lyric: that it be made up of words you can catch when you're sitting in a theater and they're flying through the air at you.

  • Those guys need to be a great deal cuter to get away with such horrible lyric writing.

  • Eric Maschwitz, a BBC radio producer moonlighting under the name Holt Marvell, wrote the lyric as an attempt to come up with his own "You're the Top"-like laundry list.


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