PROSE in a Sentence
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26 example sentences for PROSE, such as:
1. Verse would hardly venture it, prose must not.
2. Sometimes it's prose, and sometimes it comes out poetry.
3. What I liked was just that cheap bustle, that bare prose.
4. John Lennon found time to publish two books of his humorous prose.
5. Unintentionally boring, he wrote page after page of pedestrian prose.
2. Sometimes it's prose, and sometimes it comes out poetry.
3. What I liked was just that cheap bustle, that bare prose.
4. John Lennon found time to publish two books of his humorous prose.
5. Unintentionally boring, he wrote page after page of pedestrian prose.
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Meanings and Examples of PROSE
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prose
n. matter of fact, commonplace, or dull expression
n. ordinary writing as distinguished from verse
Classic Sentence:
1 O Favourite, I cease to address you as 'thou,' because I pass from poetry to prose.
2 It is to be noted that the age of periphrase in verse was the age of crudities in prose.
3 The work of the graving-tool alone would be too pale; there must be poured into the channel a concentrated prose which bites.
4 The granite solidity of such and such a celebrated prose is nothing but the accumulation effected by the tyrant.
5 This bishop's prose shocks me; I want to eat eggs without being permitted.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 11: CHAPTER IV—THE CHILD IS AMAZED AT THE OLD MAN
Context Highlight In BOOK 11: CHAPTER IV—THE CHILD IS AMAZED AT THE OLD MAN
6 Verse would hardly venture it, prose must not.
7 What I liked was just that cheap bustle, that bare prose.
8 Sometimes it's prose, and sometimes it comes out poetry.
9 Many heroes have been described to us in verse and prose, but of Dokhturov scarcely a word has been said.
10 Yet, though quarter-staff play be out of date, what we can in prose we will do for these bold champions.
11 But let me observe that all histories are against you--all stories, prose and verse.
12 I counted up to high numbers, to make sure of myself, and repeated passages that I knew in prose and verse.
13 Most people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life.
14 But this poetry done into solemn prose meant either wholesale confiscation of private property in the South, or vast appropriations.
15 In the meantime,' said Traddles, coming back to his chair; 'and this is the end of my prosing about myself, I get on as well as I can.
Example Sentence:
1 Unintentionally boring, he wrote page after page of pedestrian prose.
2 Flat prose and flat ginger ale are equally insipid: both lack sparkle.
3 In very truth the saga is a prose epic, and marked by every quality an epic should possess.
4 This is an interesting miscellany of nineteenth-century prose and poetry.
5 The manual that came with my VCR was no masterpiece of expository prose: its explanations were so garbled that I couldn't even figure out how to rewind a tape.
6 The primary issue in prose is motive: You have to understand why the people do what they do.
7 Despite occasional patches of purple prose, the book is mostly clear and incisive.
8 John Lennon found time to publish two books of his humorous prose.
9 They preach the abolition of established systems but prose nothing to replace them.
10 His prose style is far too mannered and self-conscious.
11 Thomas Carlyle , notwithstanding his tedious rhetoric, is a master of the sublime in prose style.