Prose

//ˈpɹəʊz//

"Prose" in a Sentence (16 examples)

That poem mixes prose with poetry.

This poem reads like a piece of prose.

He isn't a poet; he's a prose writer.

A bad writer's prose is full of hackneyed phrases.

He only reads prose.

She only reads prose.

Her prose is full of needlessly florid, cliched descriptions, securing her career as a romance novelist.

There is no form of prose more difficult to understand and more tedious to read than the average scientific paper.

The prose of everyday life can be very sobering.

An epigram is a short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterized by acidity or acerbity and sometimes by wisdom.

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Though known mostly for her prose, she also produced a small body of excellent poems.

...Or if Sion Hill Delight thee more, and Siloa's Brook that flow’d Faft by the Oracle of God; I thence Invoke thy aid to my adventrous Song, That with no middle flight intends to soar Above th’ Ionian Mounts while it pursues Things unattempted yet in Prose or Rhime...

...the vehicle is plodding prose, but the effect is none the less poignant. And in regard to this I may say that in a hundred places in Trollope the extremity of pathos is reached by the homeliest means.

Proses are parts of the Office of the Mass which are sung just before the Gospel, upon great Festivals. The French also call those Rhythmical Hymns Proses, which are sung in their Offices in the Church of Rome, in which Rhime only, and not Quantity of Syllables, is observed.

Pray, do not prose, good Ethelbert, but speak; What is your purpose?

Already he felt himself near to being a celebrity. He had astonished Eton. That was a good beginning. Papa might prose, knowing, of course, nothing of the poetry of caricature, of the wild joys and the laurels that crown the whimsical. So while Mr. Lane hunted adjectives, and ran sad-sounding and damnatory substantives to earth, Eustace hugged himself, and secretly chuckled over his pilgrim's progress towards the pages of Vanity Fair.

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