Example sentences for: lyricist

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

  • but I doubt it: That's not the way the ear hears music, and Hammerstein was too sensitive a lyricist to be so numbingly literal.

  • As to the bottoms winding up on top, as a self-contained composer/lyricist Porter knew enough to let a good strong lyric-thrust set itself.

  • Barlow, a former lyricist for the Grateful Dead, offers this analogy: The Dead let people tape concerts, and the tapes then led more people to pay for the concerts.

  • Can any postwar song match this prewar stanza from lyricist Leon Robin: "Venus de Milo/ Was noted for her charms/ But strictly between us/ You're cuter than Venus/ And what's more, you've got arms"?

  • Now, he happily collaborates with director/choreographer Mark Morris and lyricist/Nobel Prize-winning poet Derek Walcott.


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