How to use poetry in a sentence

Examples of poetry by meaning

More sentences with poetry

• The tenor of Eliot's prosaic work differs greatly from that of his poetry.From the entry prosaic
• She’s an actress by trade, but has been known to dabble in poetry.From the entry dabble
• Teenage angst-ridden poetry may not be to the liking of all readers.From the entry angst-ridden
• Much of the poetry included in John Lee Clark's Deaf American Poetry: An Anthology is visucentric.From the entry visucentric
• By virtue of the sonnet's many complications, Shakespeare put himself in a box when writing poetry.From the entry in a box
• You can't train a pig to write poetry.From the entry train
• He writes respectably, but poetry is not his forte.From the entry forte
• Poetry was a great convention of the Romantic era.From the entry great
• Would you favor us with a poetry reading?From the entry favor
• Bill took all of his poetry and put it together in a folder. It made up a patchwork of his life.From the entry patchwork
• The teenager spent hours cranking out volumes of bad poetry.From the entry crank out
• The cretic pattern is very rare in English poetry.From the entry cretic
• Some readers do not care overmuch for poetry.From the entry overmuch
• Part of the magic of her poetry was her ability to have her words assonate in the most propitious places.From the entry assonate
• Writing workshops result in poetry by committee.From the entry by committee
• This poetry speaks across the centuries.From the entry across
• Equivalence is important, but when translating poetry, you need to get across the feel and the emotion more than the exact semantic meaning.From the entry equivalence
• As an art-oriented teen, she played the flute, guitar and wrote poetry.2026 July 29, Nicholas Muhoro, “Amy Billig Vanished While Hitchhiking Through Coconut Grove. Then the Calls Began”, in Skip Boring…. From the entry stand out
• What the phrase lacks in poetry it makes up for in pithiness.2026 February 16, Frank Bruni, quoting Pam Bondi, “Pam Bondi and the MAGA Brand of Insult Politics”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry washed up
• “And, Beef, I didn't even know there was a poetry corner in the Lone Moose Wind.2024 February 18, Ted Travelstead, “Risky Beefness Adventure” (12:42 from the start), in The Great North, season 4, episode 2, spoken by…. From the entry sexcapade
• The Arabic that the su’luks learned to speak was the high language of rhetoric and poetry.2019, Tim Mackintosh-Smith, Arabs, Yale University Press, page 99. From the entry su'luk
• Harm-Jan van Dam dedicates his article to this kind of liminary poetry.2017, Christoph Pieper, “Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Monasteriensis: Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Congress of Neo-Latin…. From the entry liminary
• Futurist poetry is a spontaneous uninterrupted flow of analogies, each synthesized in an essential noun”.2016, Eduardo Ledesma, Radical Poetry: Aesthetics, Politics, Technology, and the Ibero-American Avant-Gardes, 1900-2015, SUNY Press…. From the entry futurist
• That is what Adorno meant when he said “It is barbaric to write poetry after Auschwitz”.2016, JC Trainini, “SOFÍA SABSAY (Argentine contemporary Artist, 1924-2008)”, in Revista Argentina de Cardiología. From the entry humanicide
• Once again, those black-clad figures make a kind of grim visual poetry from the moment.2016, Keith Gray, Carl Miller, Ostrich Boys. From the entry black-clad
• Variants have turned up in poetry, prose, and song in numerous sources.2015, Gerald Milnes, Play of a Fiddle: Traditional Music, Dance, and Folklore in West Virginia, University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN, page 79. From the entry Omie
• Miss Catley adored the English language, poetry and plays; I think she was an ‘actress manquée’.2013, June Brown, chapter 14, in Before the Year Dot, London: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN. From the entry manquée
• She was able to weave emotional intensity, multiple entendres, and metaphors together to form elegant poetry.2010, The British Tradition (Prentice Hall Literature), Michigan teacher’s edition, volume 2, Prentice Hall, →ISBN, page 804. From the entry entendre
• The magazine's mission includes curating a dialogue between poetry, the other arts, and civic life.2010 May, David Biespiel, “This Land Is Our Land”, in Poetry, volume 196, number 2, pages 151–158. From the entry curate
• As the two men talked, they quoted memorable clues as if they were lines of poetry.2009 June 23, Dean Olsher, From Square One: A Meditation, with Digressions, on Crosswords, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN. From the entry slip
• At the centre of Muhammad's achievement was the extraordinary poetry which enshrined his revelations.2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 256. From the entry enshrine
• Unfortunately, there were moments of pure indulgence, drunken boorishness and rambling unintelligible poetry midway through the evening.2009 July 31, “Nevermore With Jeffrey Combs As Edger Allan Poe Taps Every Emotion”, in Beverly Hills Courier, retrieved 17 Aug 2009. From the entry boorishness
• Metaphor is regarded as the most important and wide spread figure of speech in poetry and proverbs.2009 April, C. Arinola Akinmade, “Figures of Association and Sound in some Nigerian Proverbs: Examples from Ondo Culture”, in African…. From the entry paramiographer
• My thesis supervisor asked me to join her association on the study of traditional Arabic poetry.2008, Andrea Liverani, quoting Mohamed B., “[Algerian associations from voice to loyalty] Patrons and clients in associations”, in Civil…. From the entry arabophone
• But see, ya 'ave to be educamated to un'erston' such poetry!2007 October 22, Ophelia <O@nix.co.uk>, “Re: Violet [SNUK]”, in rec.arts.tv.uk.coronation-st (Usenet). From the entry educamate
• To me bloggery is much like modern poetry: most people want to write it than read it.2007, The Spectator, volumes 303–304, page 56. From the entry bloggery
• After the singing of egg-related songs and the reading of eggstatic poetry.2005, Sennett, Frank, 101 stunts for principals to inspire student achievement, page 66. From the entry eggstatic
• Chocolove, a fine, dark Belgian chocolate made in Colorado; has romantic poetry inside label.2004, Anne Isham, Eat Chocolate, Lose Weight: The Chocoholic's Survival Guide and Practical Handbook, →ISBN. From the entry Belgian chocolate

Meaning of poetry

1. noun Literature composed in verse or language exhibiting conscious attention to patterns and rhythm.
2. noun A poet's literary production.
3. noun An artistic quality that appeals to or evokes the emotions, in any medium; something having such a quality.

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Questions about poetry in a sentence

How do you use poetry in a sentence?

Poetry is used as a noun. For example: “That 'Swan Lake' choreography is poetry in motion, fitting the musical poetry of Tchaikovski's divine score well beyond the literary inspiration.”

What is a short sentence with poetry?

“This poetry speaks across the centuries.”

What does poetry mean?

Poetry means literature composed in verse or language exhibiting conscious attention to patterns and rhythm.