Examples of “lyric” in a Sentence

adj Relating to poetry that expresses personal thoughts and feelings, often in a musical, song-like style.

• Keats is celebrated for his lyric poetry exploring beauty and mortality.
• The poet is best known for her lyric verse about love and loss.
• We studied a lyric poem in class that read almost like a song.

noun The words of a song.

• The lyric in line 3 doesn't rhyme.
• The lyrics were written by the composer.
• She wrote the lyric for the chorus in under ten minutes.
• I can't remember the next lyric, but I know the tune perfectly.
• The singer changed one lyric in the last verse to make it funnier.