Example sentences for: lyric-writing

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

  • For most songwriters after "After The Ball," for everyone from Irving Berlin to Carole King, lyric-writing was an exercise in compression.

  • Similarly, rap is the logical consequence of pop's 30-year promotion of street cred over music: the reduction of the tune to a banal pneumatic backing track, the debasement of lyric-writing to a formless laundry list of half-baked hoodlum exhibitionism.

  • ," a pop adaptation of the waltz that was a hit in the '50s for Della Reese [LINK TO AUDIO CLIP]and which contains one of the laziest filler couplets in lyric-writing history:

  • But the spare, slightly awkward chanted admonition--"measure in love"--is still a world away from the best pop lyric-writing.


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