Example sentences for: lyricist

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

  • The late John Belushi, for instance, is said to have "specifically encouraged" De Niro to star in Analyze This , while the trio of Lenny Bruce, John Huston, and lyricist Alan Jay Lerner have all been trying to tell the Oscar winner to "make more comedies and musicals."

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

  • As every New York Times reader knows, Rent is a Pulitzer- and Tony-winning "rock opera" version of La Bohème , with a dramatis personae of HIV-positive performance artists, transsexuals, and drug addicts from the East Village, whose cachet was greatly enhanced by the death on the eve of opening of its young composer/lyricist/librettist Jonathan Larson.

  • 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.


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