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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