How to Use lyre in a Sentence

lyre

noun

• The sculpture of a girl with lyre and the portrait medallion are by Auguste Clésinger.
  — Liesl Bradner, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2019
• Other paintings bring to mind a lyre and a yoke or a helmet and a trident.
  — Roberta Smith, Karen Rosenberg, Will Heinrich and Martha Schwendener, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2016
• Apollo is holding a lyre and Venus is naked, painting on a canvas.
  — Mercedes Leguizamon and Brandon Griggs, CNN, 2 Apr. 2018
• Beside them were the remains of a musician who held a stunning lyre.
  — National Geographic, 22 May 2019
• How’s that composition in C for flute and lyre coming along?
  — Ali Ruth, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2019
• The hills of Olympus have never been more than a few strums of the lyre away from the stages of the theater, but lately the mist of mythology has seemed particularly thick.
  — Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2021
• The other is an image of the lyre and the head of the Greek god of music, Orpheus, who according to myth, continues to produce music after his death.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland, 3 Oct. 2021
• Also among the discoveries from the shipwrecks was a red gemstone engraved with a tiny image of a lyre, reports Amy Spiro for the Times of Israel.
  — Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Dec. 2021
• The lyre’s mournful throb was also heard whenever the Dolphins’ starting quarterback, Josh Rosen, touched the ball.
  — Jody Rosen, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2019
• The lyre was infused with magic, powerful enough to charm people and even inanimate objects like trees, streams, and rocks.
  — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 3 Sep. 2020
• In the painting, Apollo is holding a lyre while Venus, the goddess of love, is portrayed as an artist painting a landscape, her fleshy backside exposed.
  — Laura M. Holson, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2018
• CT scans and micro-excavation revealed the complete outline of the lyre in detail.
  — Roff Smith, National Geographic, 8 May 2019
• In Greek mythology, the lyre was the first instrument ever created.
  — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 3 Sep. 2020
• Must be able to play an accursed whalebone lyre while consuming five sticks of unsalted butter.
  — Keaton Patti, The New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2019
• In Greek mythology, Orpheus, who reclaimed his dearest Eurydice from the underworld, played her a love song on his lyre, causing an elm grove to grow on the spot.
  — National Geographic, 22 Apr. 2016
• In most versions of the source myth, Orpheus is an artist/hero, strapping on his lyre like an AK-47 and charging into the mouth of hell to rescue his beloved wife Eurydice with a fusillade of irresistible music.
  — Justin Davidson, Vulture, 24 Nov. 2021
• Tiny samples yield big results One of the most captivating finds in the Prittlewell burial was the remains of a lyre - the first complete Anglo-Saxon example that's ever been found.
  — Roff Smith, National Geographic, 8 May 2019
• The scrolled feet, together with the lyre and wreath decoration, suggest to me that this lamp embraces the Arts and Crafts ideal while not quite abandoning the decorative elements of earlier pieces.
  — Jane Alexiadis, The Mercury News, 19 Apr. 2017
• Having profitably played his lyre in Weinstein’s court for a quarter of a century, the director Quentin Tarantino kept his counsel for a couple of weeks before confirming that, yes, this really is how things are done.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 24 Oct. 2017
• This collection features eight killer tracks from the 70s and 80s, with Hassan accompanying his own soulful singing on amplified tambour-a five-string lyre-over percolating Daleeb rhythms from northern Sudan.
  — Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader, 13 June 2018
• There’s no evidence of this maniacal lyre-playing, but historians today still debate whether Nero orchestrated the disaster.
  — Adrienne Lafrance, The Atlantic, 17 June 2017

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