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    Use "lyric" in a sentence

    lyric example sentences

    lyric


    1. The lyric repeats in Billy's head


    2. The lyric starts up again in Billy's head and as he gets to the line where Bex breaks his heart the tears begin


    3. In a lyric voice, rising and falling pleasantly with the lines, she sang hauntingly:


    4. “Who do you think Terry was talking about in the song lyric? Has he maintained a relationship with anyone from elementary school?”


    5. There’s an OkGo song that has the lyric, “Could’ve been a


    6. nuance in the meaning of the lyric poetry


    7. With the immediate problem of writing down his extraordinary lyric poetry solved,


    8. It had received poor revues, which I thought served them right, as it was this very theatre, The Lyric, from which I’d been ignominiously expelled a few weeks previously


    9. Tears of self-pity leaked from her eyes and rolled toward her ears, calling unbidden from somewhere in her subconscious an old country song lyric that went, “I got tears in my ears from lying on my back in my bed while I cry over you


    10. There is a lyric in that song

    11. is so much substance and truth to this lyric! So many of us are simply unaware that we have


    12. An unforgettable lyric in the song is Music is the healing force of the world


    13. “There’s an old Faith No More lyric I always liked,” Lacey said after reflecting a moment


    14. These shows come into the West End for a limited period of time where they “share” a theatre space (such as The Tiger Who Came to Tea which shares the Lyric theatre with Thriller-Live) and will have family friendly performance times in the morning, afternoon and at the weekends when the theatre is not being used by the main show


    15. I am reminded of a lyric from


    16. Lyric poetry, that had almostdied of inanition during the period of Classicism, took on


    17. mentioned characteristics, even those that have to do morenaturally with lyric poetry, subjectivity and


    18. although notably reduced, this lyric element is still quiteapparent in the scene between Marsilla and


    19. Both in lyric mastery and in his spirit of revolt, Esproncedaholds the place in Spanish


    20. MENÉNDEZ Y PELAYO(1856-1912) began their literary career with a volume or twoof lyric

    21. recognition in thisbrief review of the history of Spanish lyric poetry: VicenteWenceslao


    22. Arce was a lyric poet, a dramatist and a writer of polemics, but first of all a man of action


    23. are unduly limited; but he writes with a manly vigorthat is rare amongst Spanish lyric poets,


    24. in exalted lyric and religiouspassages; but he was more mannered, more taintedwith Gongorism


    25. During the first decade of the nineteenth centurythere was an outpouring of lyric


    26. iscalled the "restorer of lyric and objective poetry in Mexico"(cf


    27. Gorostiza (1789-1851), whowrote few lyric verses, but many dramas in verse and prose


    28. Galván (1816-1842), 311a translator, lyric poet, and dramatist


    29. year, she was invited to see Verdi’s La Traviata at the Lyric Theater of Athens


    30. Then she recalled the heroines of the books that she had read, and the lyric legion of these adulterous women began to sing in her memory with the voice of sisters that charmed her

    31. Dramatic and lyric poetry, like every other branch of Greek literature, was falling under the power of rhetoric


    32. Something of this kind, I replied:--God is always to be represented as he truly is, whatever be the sort of poetry, epic, lyric or tragic, in which the representation is given


    33. For if you go beyond this and allow the honeyed muse to enter, either in epic or lyric verse, not law and the reason of mankind, which by common consent have ever been deemed best, but pleasure and pain will be the rulers in our State


    34. Not, he parenthesised, that for the sake of filthy lucre he need necessarily embrace the lyric platform as a walk in life for any lengthy space of time


    35. I originally resisted calls for there to be a lyric sheet at all, as I had done with all the previous releases, but eventually I relented and had Barney Bubbles lay out all of the words in a continuous stream, without punctuation, so it had a graphic effect rather than stressing any order or hierarchy on the page


    36. I knew I had to write the lyric for myself


    37. Oddly enough, although their voices were absolutely of a different timbre, Gram Parsons has that same vulnerability and the sense of conveying more than a lyric sheet might have revealed


    38. Johnny transcribed my lyric in his own fine hand, his chosen method for learning new songs, but this only became known to me when his son, John Carter Cash, found the pages among Johnny’s papers and sent them to me in 2014


    39. On arrival, I looked at the pile of handwritten lyric sheets and doodles


    40. Whenever there was a pause in the song she filled it with gasping broken sobs and then took up the lyric again in a quavering soprano

    41. They are lyric sheets


    42. Once excited, he burst forth, a sort of mirth accentuated his enthusiasm, and he was at once both laughing and lyric


    43. When he was not occupied with the administration of his decrepit vessels, still afloat out of sheer distraction on the part of fate, or with the problems of river navigation, which grew more and more critical every day, he devoted his free time to the enrichment of his lyric repertoire


    44. [Epic poetry, focused on the third person, strongly involves the referential function of language; the lyric, oriented toward the first person, is intimately linked with the emotive function; poetry of the second person is imbued with the conative function and is either supplicatory or exhortative, depending on whether the first person is subordinated to the second one or the second to the first


    45. And spouted it with lyric fire—


    46. Afanasie Afanasevich Fet (Shenshin) (1820–1892), a Russian lyric poet and translator and friend of the Tolstoi family


    47. No matter what he may write, a drama, a learned work, a story, a philosophic treatise, a lyric poem, a criticism, a satire, it is only this inner work of his soul which is dear to us, and not the architectural structure in which he, for the most part, and I think, always, distorting them, clothes his thoughts and feelings


    48. "Simsen's so lyric, he certainly must be drunk


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    Synonyms for "lyric"

    lyric lyric poem language words lyrical sweet silvery dulcet mellifluous

    "lyric" definitions

    the text of a popular song or musical-comedy number


    a short poem of songlike quality


    write lyrics for (a song)


    expressing deep emotion


    used of a singer or singing voice that is light in volume and modest in range


    relating to or being musical drama


    of or relating to a category of poetry that expresses emotion (often in a songlike way)