How to Use lyricist in a Sentence

lyricist

noun

• Alaina, his wife, who is the singer and lyricist of the band, greets me with a warm hug.
  — Longreads, 13 July 2018
• The lyricist wrote the words and then asked his wife to compose the music.
  — David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Dec. 2021
• Anaïs Mitchell was both the composer and lyricist on all the Hadestown songs.
  — Paul Grein, Billboard, 15 Oct. 2019
• Neil Peart, the longtime drummer and lyricist of the band Rush, has died at age 67.
  — Li Cohen, CBS News, 10 Jan. 2020
• Front man Rateliff, who wrote or co-wrote all the songs, is just a passable lyricist.
  — Philly.com, 22 Mar. 2018
• But the best lyricist is the Gershwin of music, and that’s Paul Simon.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 28 June 2023
• Rapsody became the first woman to win for lyricist of the year.
  — Paul Grein, Billboard, 27 Oct. 2020
• Across the decades, dozens of lyricists have used Manson as a metaphor for menace.
  — Randall Robertsstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2019
• At the heart of this record, the lyrics are about a specific person that the band’s lyricist John Allen lost.
  — Aaron Carnes, sacbee, 1 June 2018
• Zero has been around for over 30 years and Dead lyricist Robert Hunter worked with them for a while.
  — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 29 Oct. 2022
• The prevailing tone is sadness, which plays to her strengths as both a singer and a lyricist.
  — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 26 Apr. 2024
• Speaking of great lyricists, Lin-Manuel Miranda did the songs for the first Moana.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 19 Sep. 2024
• Koenig is a meticulous lyricist, not one of those say-any-old-thing types.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
• Lamar won six awards total, including artist of the year, lyricist of the year and best live performer.
  — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 5 Oct. 2022
• Country singer Kacey Musgraves is a clever lyricist who knows her way around a chord change.
  — Mark Richardson, WSJ, 18 Dec. 2018
• His music, much of it penned with lyricist Hal David, is still great 50 years later.
  — John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press, 7 June 2018
• Carly Simon is a very good lyricist, but there are few people in the world less rock and roll than her.
  — Vulture, 3 May 2022
• But none of this might have happened had Menken not met lyricist Howard Ashman.
  — Jeff Bond, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Dec. 2022
• Sondheim first broke out as a lyricist on the classic Broadway show in 1957, and he's been a Jet all the way ever since.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 9 Dec. 2021
• When Heath asked Platz for a lyricist to adapt the song into English, the latter offered up Bowie.
  — Jem Aswad, Variety, 11 Feb. 2024
• Legendary drummer and lyricist of the Canadian rock band, Neil Peart, has died from brain cancer at the age of 67.
  — Piet Levy, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 Feb. 2020
• But the judge ruled that such a short, simple phrase could not be monopolized by any one lyricist.
  — Bill Donahue, Billboard, 28 Aug. 2023
• This was Lamar’s eighth win for lyricist of the year, more by far than anyone else in the history of the show (which originated in 2006).
  — Paul Grein, Billboard, 5 Oct. 2022
• The lyricist, the late Nick Meglin, was an editor at Mad magazine.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2019
• Having broken with his singer and his lyricist, Bacharach wandered in the wilderness.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2023
• Geezer Butler, 73, is the bassist and primary lyricist in the English hard-rock band Black Sabbath.
  — Marc Myers, WSJ, 13 June 2023
• Tripp served as lyricist and producer, while Weisbord set the lyrics to music and played piano.
  — Morgan Smith, PEOPLE.com, 4 Dec. 2019
• Patty, the principal at a local kindergarten, was the lyricist, while Mildred wrote the melodies.
  — Sarah Todd, Quartzy, 30 Aug. 2019
• Payne, a gifted lyricist and voracious listener, had a steeper climb to find his own sound.
  — August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2024
• The track preceded a number of solo productions that put Ka's name in circulation as a top lyricist.
  — Tavleen Tarrant, NBC News, 15 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024