Poetic

//pəʊˈɛtɪk//

"Poetic" in a Sentence (12 examples)

Haiku is a poetic form originating in Japan.

Mary always greatly enjoyed reading Tom's poetic letters.

Humour has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.

Good, enough poetic images.

She was beautiful and charming, but looked at her husband's poetic efforts with complete indifference.

The sweetness of Interlingua was more suited to my poetic vision.

Sadness is poetic.

Of all the personages whose marvelous doings once filled the minds of men, he alone survives. He has outlived all the great gods, and all the impressive and poetic conceptions which once flitted between heaven and earth; these have gone, but Santa Claus remains by virtue of a common understanding that childhood shall not be despoiled of one of its most cherished beliefs.

There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.

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Iambics are one form of poetic meter.

Some poems, echoing the purpose of early poetic treatises on scientific principles, attempt to elucidate the mathematical concepts that underlie prime numbers. Others play with primes’ cultural associations. Still others derive their structure from mathematical patterns involving primes.

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