How to use prose in a sentence

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More sentences with prose

• She was endeavoring to teach us the elements of a good prose style.From the entry endeavor
• He struggled with sentencing his frayed and angry verses from poem to prose.From the entry sentencing
• In technical communication, don't use prose to present information that lends itself to a tabular presentation.From the entry tabular
• Her novels are filled with unforgettable characters and deathless prose.From the entry deathless
• The clarion immediacy of Van Gogh’s painting was echoed by his prose.2021 March 24, Sebastian Smee, “Van Gogh’s astonishing masterpiece”, in Washington Post. From the entry clarion
• She is the only writer I’ve read who can incorporate meme-speak into her prose without losing face.2019 August 4, Maggie Doherty, “Jia Tolentino on the ‘Unlivable Hell’ of the Web and Other Millennial Conundrums”, in The New York Times…. From the entry meme-speak
• Variants have turned up in poetry, prose, and song in numerous sources.2015, Gerald Milnes, Play of a Fiddle: Traditional Music, Dance, and Folklore in West Virginia, University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN, page 79. From the entry Omie
• Clear, workmanlike prose will do fine, and polishing up the prose is for the second draft.2014, Scott Winfield Sublett, Screenwriting for Neurotics: A Beginner's Guide to Writing a Feature-Length Screenplay from Start to Finish…. From the entry workmanlike
• I don’t believe Lindsay senses the satiric undercurrents beneath the machined ripples of Ballard’s prose.2011, Will Self, “The frowniest spot on Earth”, in London Review of Books, XXXIII.9. From the entry machined
• In recounting the story of Lenny and Eunice in his antic, supercaffeinated prose, Mr.2010 July 26, Michiko Kakutani, “Love Found Amid Ruins of Empire”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry antic
• In his prose poem, Lessness, Beckett incantates a haunting description of total ruin.2010, S. Giora Shoham, To Test the Limits of Our Endurance. From the entry incantate
• Adler's prose seeks to catch the whispers and chirpings of insanity rather than the lamentations of suffering.2009 January 11, Richard Lourie, “Displaced Minds”, in New York Times. From the entry chirping
• In deliciously Buckleyesque prose, former National Review (now known as NR) board member Neal B.2007, Juliana Geran Pilon, Why America is Such a Hard Sell: Beyond Pride and Prejudice, →ISBN, page 81. From the entry Buckleyesque
• So if you ask Lasseter about car love, you get an impromptu prose poem.2006 May 14, Richard Corliss, “Get Your Motor Running”, in Time. From the entry prose poem
• Likewise, the 'Cauldron of poesy' and 'Bretha Déin Chécht' both contain prose, rosc, and rhyming syllabic verse.2005, Theodore William Moody, Dáibhí Ó Cróinín, Francis X. Martin, A New History of Ireland - Volume 1, →ISBN, page 446. From the entry rosc
• If prose got people fat, you can bet everybody would be a real tubbo.2003, Clay Reynolds, Ars Poetica: A Postmodern Parable. From the entry tubbo
• They serve obvious, explicitly stated purposes and use a different voice than expository prose.2003, Jim Burke, Writing Reminders: Tools, Tips, and Techniques, page 342. From the entry infotext
• Her spare prose and dialogue give a period flavour without the dread excesses of gadzookery.2002, David Langford, The Complete Critical Assembly, Wildside Press LLC, →ISBN, page 137. From the entry gadzookery
• His prose is generous, unhurried, and far too tasteful to gob up the page with theory.2001, Bookforum: The Book Review for Art and Culture. From the entry gob up
• I think it safe to conclude that Poe's prose suggests a fondness for parallel structure, sometimes antithetical.1999 Winter, Brett Zimmerman, “A Catalogue of Selected Rhetorical Devices Used in the Works of Edgar Allan Poe”, in Style, volume 33…. From the entry anemographia
• Written in spare, pellucid prose, the book reads like a close-to-the-bone memoir.1994 November 13, Fritz Lanham, The Houston Chronicle, Houston, Tex.: Houston Chronicle Pub. Co., →ISSN, →OCLC. From the entry pellucid
• Perhaps that’s why bureaucratic prose becomes so turgid, whatever the bureaucracy.1976, William Zinsser, On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition, Kindle edition, Harper Perennial, published 2012, →ISBN, page 172. From the entry turgid
• The prose of these reviews is lucid, succinct, and graceful; Mr.1972 July 16, “The perils and rewards of reviewing”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry inkhorn term
• Prose seemed to him to be a concrete, practical form of expression.1967, Richard Boyd Hauck, The Literary Content of the New York Spirit of the Times, 1831-1856, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Illinois…. From the entry huckleberry
• POPULAR versions in prose of Homer's epic “The Odyssey” are not unfamiliar to youthful readers.1961 April 16, Horace Gregory, “A Noble Homer Who Almost Never Nods; […]”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times…. From the entry The Odyssey
• I mean, of course, the world-famous, forbidding peak of U.S. income-tax prose.1958, Rudolf Flesch, “How to Write Like a Pro”, in A New Way to Better English, Garden City, N.Y.: Dolphin Books, Doubleday & Company…. From the entry Mount Everest
• But the play's snatches of racy prose do not offset its stretches of lumpish playwriting.1951 March 5, “New Plays in Manhattan”, in Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Aug 2023. From the entry lumpish
• No one can escape this impression from the reading of his prose.1945, Books Abroad 1945: Volume 19, Issue 2, University of Oklahoma, pages 118-119. From the entry ultradimensional
• Swinburne is often a very discerning critic in spite of his penchant for purple prose.1932, Harry T. Baker, “Hazlitt as a Shakespearean Critic”, in PMLA, volume 47, number 1, page 198. From the entry purple prose
• Poets are pretty much the same everywhere in their poetry—and in their prose.1912, G. K. Chesterton, “The Separatist and Sacred Things,”, in A Miscellany of Men. From the entry pretty much
• Better hollo abstract ideas through the six-foot Alpine horn of prose.1904, Edward Dowden, Robert Browning. From the entry hollo
• Awkward or repetitive prose presented another pitfall.2026 February 8, Alexandra Alter, “The New Fabio Is Claude”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry manhood
• Isaacson comes from the “his eyes lit up” school of cliched writing, the rest of his prose workmanlike bordering on AI.2023 September 13, Gary Shteyngart, “Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson review – arrested development”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry workmanlike
• The spaces of Beckett’s drama and prose—particularly the later work—seem for the most part abstract, dislocated, and disconnected from material place.2018, Trish McTighe, “‘Be Again, Be Again’: The Gate’s Beckett Country”, in David Clare, Des Lally, Patrick Lonergan, editors, The Gate…. From the entry vaguen
• Their prose is pedestrian, their ideas weak.2016, Paradox Interactive, Stellaris (video game), scene: Anomaly Event 3086. From the entry pedestrian
• Goffin is a prose text interspersed with short lists of typical terms exemplifying certain sub-classes of Indian English lexis.2014, James Lambert, “Diachronic stability in Indian English lexis”, in World Englishes, page 116. From the entry intersperse
• Readers of seventeenth-century Polish texts— from baroque poetry through polemical pamphlets to forensic prose—are used to deciphering Polish-Latin macaronicisms.2013, David A. Frick, Kith, Kin, and Neighbors. From the entry macaronicism
• During this period, and especially in Russia, the travelogue becomes a hybrid genre comprising elements of poetry, prose, and the drama.2012, R.K. Wilson, The Literary Travelogue: A Comparative Study with Special Relevance to Russian Literature from Fonvizin to Pushkin…. From the entry travelogue
• In d'Allemagne's vitriolic prose, Québec bears an incredible resemblance to Kenya, Rhodesia, and South Africa under white 'settlerist plunder and dispossession.2012, Pius Adesanmi, You're Not a Country, Africa, →ISBN. From the entry settlerist

Meaning of prose

1. noun Language, particularly written language, not intended as poetry.
2. noun Language which evinces little imagination or animation; dull and commonplace discourse.
3. noun A hymn with no regular meter, sometimes introduced into the Mass.

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Questions about prose in a sentence

How do you use prose in a sentence?

Prose is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Though known mostly for her prose, she also produced a small body of excellent poems.”

What is a short sentence with prose?

“Awkward or repetitive prose presented another pitfall.”

What does prose mean?

Prose means language, particularly written language, not intended as poetry.