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How to use poet in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun

Poet means a person who writes poems. Example: “The poet composed a ballad praising the heroic exploits of the fallen commander.”

More sentences with poet

  • The poet composed a ballad praising the heroic exploits of the fallen commander.From the entry ballad
  • Many cowboy poets have a buckaroo look and feel about them.From the entry buckaroo
  • The poet was chaired at the national Eisteddfod.From the entry chair
  • The mourners paid their last respects to the deceased poet.From the entry respect
  • Poets often leave behind an implicit message within their words.From the entry implicit
  • Being a professional poet is a nice job, albeit unprofitable.From the entry unprofitable
  • German poet, philosopher, historian and playwright Friedrich Schiller.From the entry schiller
  • Pushkin was a famous Russian poet.From the entry Pushkin
  • Hsieh, a poet who works at a cafe in New Taipei City.2022 March 1, Amy Qin, Amy Chang Chien, “Watching the War in Ukraine, Taiwanese Draw Lessons in Self-Reliance”, in The New York Times…. From the entry freedom of speech
  • I'm a poet, and I didn't even know it,” she giggles to herself.2020 October 18, Diane Anthony, The Remnant, Authors 4 Authors Publishing, →ISBN, page 81. From the entry one is a poet and doesn't know it
  • Poets and artists have been celebrating it in their works since well before the Middle Ages.2018 December 13, “North and South Korea meet through handshakes and art”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 13 Dec 2018…. From the entry Kumgang
  • Zhou grew up, is renowned for its literary history, especially a 9th century poet, Du Mu.2018 June 4, Steven Lee Myers, “How to Catch a Killer in China: Another Chinese Crime Novel Goes Global”, in The New York Times, →ISSN…. From the entry Slender West Lake
  • The American poet Ange Mlinko's fifth book is "Distant Mandate" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux).2017 August 28, Dan Chiasson, “The Playful Poetry of Ange Mlinko [print edition: Merry War]”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: New…. From the entry primum mobile
  • A number of suggestions have been proposed for the identity of this wonderful twelfth-century poet.2013, David R. Slavitt, “Foreword”, in The Lays of Marie de France, Athabasca University Press, →ISBN, page IX. From the entry Maries
  • The poet Samuel Coleridge used heavenriche to describe the sky, the place where nimbification or cloud-forming occurs.2012, Phil Cousineau, Painted Word: A Treasure Chest of Remarkable Words and Their Origins, Viva Editions, →ISBN, page 395. From the entry heavenriche
  • Ono Komachi was a prominent and gifted poet in her day.2010, The British Tradition (Prentice Hall Literature), Michigan teacher’s edition, volume 2, Prentice Hall, →ISBN, page 804. From the entry entendre
  • My friend Lizzie, who is an actual poet, is a terrific, prolific updater.2009 February 15, Virginia Heffernan, “Being There”, in New York Times. From the entry updater
  • Or the poets who have kept turning out exhortations to seize the day and gather rosebuds.2009 December 28, John Tierney, “Carpe Diem? Maybe Tomorrow”, in New York Times, retrieved 05 Apr 2015. From the entry gather rosebuds
  • My personal metaphor for the poet has long been that of filter, or cultural recombinator.2009, Rob McLennan, Side/Lines, →ISBN, page 52. From the entry recombinator
  • Rival poets in Scotland exchanged flytings that were packed with riddling conceits.2007, Marina Warner, “Doubly Damned”, in London Review of Books, 29:3, p. 26. From the entry flyting
  • He was a journalist, critic, poet, and philosopher who objected to reversionism on spiritual and philosphical grounds.2007, Miyume Tanji, Myth, Protest and Struggle in Okinawa, page 97. From the entry reversionism
  • In one sense the protagonist is the poet himself, but in another sense he is an anonymity.2006, Jatindra Mohan Mohanty, History of Oriya Literature, page 516. From the entry anonymity
  • They deal with synonyms and homonyms and were meant for the use of poets.2006, Encyclopedia of language and linguistics 2ed, Elsevier, page 614. From the entry kosha
  • They are the ones who can untongue you, the poet Adler says.2006, Lisa Zaran, “The Great Ones”, in The Blondes Lay Content, page 68. From the entry untongue
  • As a poet with taste and sensibility and "growing old gracefully", she "soulsearches for feel of things.2004, Poet - Volume 45, page 60. From the entry soulsearch
  • Conversely, native Francien-speaking poets often displayed a degree of linguistic smugness and superiority.2003, Adrian Battye, Marie-Anne Hintze, Paul Rowlett, The French Language Today: A Linguistic Introduction, →ISBN. From the entry Francien
  • The poet Thomas Gray said that reading Aristotle was like eating dried hay.2001, Rupert Woodfin; Judy Groves, illustrator, “Lecture Notes”, in Richard Appignanesi, editor, Introducing Aristotle (Introducing …)…. From the entry acroatic
  • Its fantastically shaped hills and meandering rivers have been celebrated by Chinese painters and poets for centuries.1998, R. D. Chin, “The Ba-Gua”, in Feng shui Revealed, New York: Clarkson Potter, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 19. From the entry Kuang-hsi
  • While both are poets of exile, Dante is more of a belonger and less of a loner.1997, John K. Hale, Milton's Languages: The Impact of Multilingualism on Style, page 156. From the entry belonger
  • The poet is caught in the contradiction of this Janus word.1994, Nancy Dena Goldfarb, The poetics of drowning, page 37. From the entry Janus word
  • There is, however, no way of ascertaining the exact relationship between marginalia, poet and copyist.1993, P. Schoonbeeg, “Part Three: Northern Humanism”, “Friderici Mauri carmina. An edition with commentary”, in F. Akkerman, G. C.…. From the entry marginale
  • Jack Kerouac, standing up there and improvising poems to jazz, was a lousy poet.1991, Agni, page 156. From the entry lamester
  • They are major poets out of whak, twisted and balked by unwill.1988, Daniel G. Marowski, Contemporary Literary Criticism, page 5. From the entry unwill
  • Protestant poets, however, wishing to proselytize, shunned esotericism and emphasized revelation rather than concealment.1987, S. K. Heninger Jr., “Words and Meter in Spenser and Scaliger”, in The Huntington Library Quarterly, volume 50, number 3, page 311. From the entry suasiveness
  • Yet these are words of magic incantated by a non-religious priest: a poet.1985, Glenda Abramson, Essays in Honour of Salo Rappaport: On the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday. From the entry incantate
  • They portend a poet of major craft, of deep feeling, and of fine intelligence.1982 April 10, Jane Barnes, “Terror and Hope”, in Gay Community News, page 10. From the entry portend
  • Poet do not mis-spell our thoughts or miscontinue what is held in our hearts.1981, Marang - Volumes 3-6, page 13. From the entry miscontinue
  • In the two distant sequels, the poet captures the exhilaration of the flight of the bird.1981, Sélections Lardanchet (contributor), Bulletin des Lettres, page 66. From the entry distant sequel
  • The poet is not trying to conform to any of the old standards of behavior.1979 December 15, Stephanie Byrd, “An Injection of Spirit”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 21, page 10. From the entry gird
  • I think poets have an obligation to boost the magazines they appear in.1977, The Publication of Poetry and Fiction, page 97. From the entry bag

Meaning of poet

  1. noun A person who writes poems.
  2. noun A person with a creative or romantic imagination.

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Questions about poet in a sentence

How do you use poet in a sentence?
Poet is used as a noun. For example: “The poet composed a ballad praising the heroic exploits of the fallen commander.”
What is a short sentence with poet?
“Pushkin was a famous Russian poet.”
What does poet mean?
Poet means a person who writes poems.

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