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lyrically

[ UK /lˈɪɹɪkli/ ]
[ US /ˈɫɪɹɪkɫi/ ]
ADVERB
  1. in a lyrical manner
    she danced the part of the Black Swan very lyrically

How To Use lyrically In A Sentence

  • Mr. Morris grabbed every chance to bend a phrase lyrically, as when, alone in the woods, Siegfried wonders what his mother was like and who his father was. NYT > Home Page
  • Lyrically poetic and understated, this album has a churchly feel that makes for perfect nighttime chillout music.
  • We wrapped the blackbird in ferns and lyrically buried it under an acer tree. Times, Sunday Times
  • Musically and lyrically more direct than its predecessor, it reached deeper into the storytelling tradition.
  • She or he needs an instinctive sense of where lines should end, how end-stopped they might be, and which ones call for enjambment, their sense flowing lyrically over the tiny pause and into a line that follows.
  • I think this album is tremendous in several places, in fact; a messy, dissolute record that pulls off the stunt of being musically emotionally open while lyrically open to interpretation.
  • They shed their blood lyrically for the counting-house; and they defended the shop, that immense diminutive of the fatherland, with Lacedaemonian enthusiasm. Les Miserables
  • The term 'idyl' has been explained above (page 248, note to iv): such idyls may be either narrated as stories, or brought out lyrically or dramatically, as in the present case. Select Masterpieces of Biblical Literature
  • Perhaps she couldn't then, but she can now - lyrically, funnily, passionately, rudely, spellbindingly. Times, Sunday Times
  • Lyrically and musically, the album's tone of entropy does more to underscore the miasma of dread most people feel under the current political conditions than it does to rebel significantly against it.
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