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lyre - use in sentences
Converse of object
- play: A fine fresco of Apollo playing a lyre - see picture - is thought to represent the young Nero.
- carry: Like her brother Apollo, Artemis was also associated with music, and was frequently depicted carrying a lyre.
- hold: To the left, a standing female holding a lyre.
- tune: We must tune the lyre for Winter moods, As the birds fly higher to southern woods.
- place: The shepherd chosen by her in her holy heart, Gudea, the ruler of Lagac, placed the lyre ( ?
- invent: He immediately killed a tortoise and, hollowing out its shell for a sounding board, invented the lyre.
Adjective modifier
- Orphic: When he sang his songs to the Orphic lyre, possessed by a divine frenzy, Ficino knew what Orpheus knew.
- thy: V Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is: What if my leaves are falling like its own?
- broken: Teacher mended the broken lyre of my life and gave me mental concepts to replace sight and hearing.
- golden: Apollo is the god of music, playing a golden lyre.
Modifies a noun
- player: The pomegranate also appears under the young lyre player on the side panel of the throne.
Noun used with modifier
- thy: And must thy lyre, so long divine, Degenerate into hands like mine?
- ringing: Next, the herald came forward carrying Demodocus ' ringing lyre.
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