Example sentences for: poetry

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

  • As for Burgon, who later in life became Dean of Chichester, he retains a tiny niche in the history of English literature for two immortal lines of poetry he composed in 1845, much quoted and much admired ever since.

  • 5 points--number of full-length poetry titles published

  • The romance is actually an old form of lyrical poetry that dates from medieval Spain.

  • Some conservative dictionaries published earlier in the 20th century listed a huge number of Scotticisms on the (justifiable) grounds that they would be useful in reading Burns; but most school editions containing Burns's poetry later on supplied glosses, so an ancillary reference proved unnecessary.

  • Cheaper still is most of Bowfinger , a one-joke movie that's like Ed Wood (1994) without the poetry or emotion that Tim Burton managed to coax out of re-creations of Grade Z genre flicks.


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