Example sentences for: poetically

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

  • Early modern English used car poetically for the chariots of the sun and planets, as in Milton's image of a maritime sunset in Comus: And the gilded car of day / His glowing axle doth allay / In the steep Atlantic stream.

  • Located in Staten Island, it's the largest and most poetically named garbage dump in the world).

  • --Prudie, poetically

  • An amusing example of this kind of semantic confusion will be found in Chapter XX of Aldous Huxley's Crome Yellow . From boyhood the romantic, poetically inclined hero, Denis Stone, found the word carminative particularly evocative.

  • Stiller, who struggles to turn his self-hatred into other-hatred, makes a hilariously morose seether, and Azaria is poetically twitty--he recalls Marlon Brando's Fletcher Christian.


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