2
: writing that formulates a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience in language chosen and arranged to create a specific emotional response through meaning, sound, and rhythm
3
a
: something likened to poetry especially in beauty of expression
b
: poetic quality or aspect
the poetry of dance
Examples of poetry in a Sentence
I read the poem in a collection of modern poetry.
She's published two books of lyric poetry and a novel.
He found it easiest to express himself in the language of poetry.
Her dancing is pure poetry.
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Velasco advised a student with a talent for poetry to apply for the Oskar Knoblauch Holocaust Impact Video Contest using one of his poems.
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Erick Trevino, AZCentral.com, 7 Sep. 2025
But Enyedi is a master stylist who knows how to create a certain mood, mixing visual poetry with deadpan humor, and big ideas with quotidian foibles, in a film that explores our mysterious relationship with both the green world and one another.
—Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 6 Sep. 2025
Where Shy was the subject of Porter’s slender book — which is really more of a beat-poetry day-in-the-life monologue — the focus shifts here to the weary headmaster who’s been fighting on the students’ behalf all these years.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 6 Sep. 2025
The actor and writer has been writing poetry all his life.
—Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 6 Sep. 2025
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Erick Trevino, AZCentral.com, 7 Sep. 2025
But Enyedi is a master stylist who knows how to create a certain mood, mixing visual poetry with deadpan humor, and big ideas with quotidian foibles, in a film that explores our mysterious relationship with both the green world and one another.
—Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 6 Sep. 2025
Where Shy was the subject of Porter’s slender book — which is really more of a beat-poetry day-in-the-life monologue — the focus shifts here to the weary headmaster who’s been fighting on the students’ behalf all these years.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 6 Sep. 2025
The actor and writer has been writing poetry all his life.
—Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 6 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for poetry
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“Poetry.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/poetry. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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