How to Use lyrical in a Sentence

lyrical

adjective
  • She is noted for her lyrical moviemaking style.
  • Too many of them don’t rap with soul, heart, or lyrical depth.
    — Demicia Inman, VIBE.com, 24 Sep. 2025
  • In a group, the saxophone takes plays the lyrical part of the song.
    — Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2024
  • There’s seemingly not much back-and-forth on the lyrical themes or specifics.
    — Katherine Turman, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2025
  • Stage is a writer with a gift for the lyrical and the frightening.
    — New York Times, 25 Oct. 2021
  • Much of what the narrator says is at once lyrical and astute.
    — Francine Prose, The New York Review of Books, 23 Feb. 2022
  • Is there a lyrical or a musical moment that speaks to you in some sort of way now?
    — Charlie Harding, Vulture, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Not that Cantona’s own words have always been quite so lyrical.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 18 May 2026
  • The words come tumbling out and are more functional than lyrical.
    — Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 14 Sep. 2019
  • Your lyrical style is very heartfelt and straightforward, but kind of vague.
    — Greg Gilman, Variety, 21 Dec. 2022
  • My treatment of illness is lyrical.
    — Eric Olson september 23, Literary Hub, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Still, the lyrical changes were largely driven by Black artists.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 13 Nov. 2025
  • Across your 40-plus albums, is there an arc, a driving lyrical force?
    — A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 13 Nov. 2021
  • Thousands of titles, fragments and lyrical ideas are stacked up.
    — Bryan West, USA Today, 28 May 2026
  • Yorke had drawn a lyrical abstraction.
    — Zoe Si, New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2025
  • Kendrick has become the flag bearer for lyrical rap, a master of a dying art form.
    — Hazlitt, 30 May 2024
  • The phrases are so lyrical as to sing along to, yet so majestic as to look upward at them.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 3 Dec. 2022
  • Light shines through as a key lyrical theme in You Should Be Here.
    — Heran Mamo, Billboard, 25 June 2025
  • Every page is filled with lyrical text and fluid art by Doug Salati.
    — Laura Denby, Parents, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The score is dark, propulsive, and, at times, wrenchingly lyrical.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 24 June 2019
  • That’s not a bad approach to some movies too, this stunningly lyrical dust-to-dust epic not least among them.
    — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2023
  • That means some careful lyrical revisions are in store for some of his racier bars.
    — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 27 Nov. 2025
  • Your decorating here looks a bit Swedish to me — soft and lyrical.
    — Mimi Read, House Beautiful, 26 Feb. 2018
  • The lyrical direction of this record intrigued me.
    — Hanif Abdurraqib, New Yorker, 31 May 2026
  • Just as the lyrical, swaddling suiting in earthy shades at The Row makes sense.
    — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2018
  • Even if the plot has very little to do with the already-flimsy lyrical themes, the medium makes sense.
    — Patrick Lyons, Billboard, 12 Mar. 2021
  • In fact, the lyrical backbone of the song comes straight from their relationship.
    — Tricia Despres, PEOPLE.com, 18 Nov. 2021
  • Like all Burke's novels, this one is lush and lyrical and poignant and pretty damn brutal.
    — Star Tribune, 20 Sep. 2020
  • Keep it short and sweet with an adorable emoji or long and lyrical with all the hashtags that can fit — the caption choice is yours.
    — Seventeen, 14 Apr. 2022
  • Others, like a night spent with an older villager, don’t add much and disturb the film’s lyrical rhythm.
    — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 15 Mar. 2026

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