prose

All this was presented in calm, scientific prose and aided by dense mathematical equations.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026

“A Past Without Pictures” is a bleak but intermittently lyrical work with lean prose.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

Few critics praised Archer's prose style, his sense of humour, or the emotional depth of his characters.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

Writing in newspaper Canard Enchaine, Fabrice Colin also criticised the formulaic sentence structure and said he "vainly looked for a unique voice" in the prose.

From Barron's ● Sep. 25, 2026

The writing can be bloated, self-conscious, academic; these are habits that classic style, which treats prose as a window onto the world, is designed to break.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

It contains drawings and proses which have nothing but a formal, not an illustrative or explanatory, relation to each other.

From Time Magazine Archive

I held the little beast's head all over the Latin proses for Monday.

From Stalky & Co. by Rudyard Kipling

Free interchange of poetries and proses, of heroic sentiments and opinions, between the Unique of Sages and the Paragon of Crown-Princes; how charming to both!

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 10 by Thomas Carlyle

Philip proses about the burden he takes up and the cares he endures.

From The Age of Tennyson by Hugh Walker

But there is a man in my office, a Mr. Hedges, who proses it away from morning to night, and never gets beyond corporal and material verities.

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas

A similar bill prosed in the Senate would change visitation restrictions specifically for nursing homes, although the measure has not yet been placed on the Legislature’s agenda.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 3, 2021

He wanted a good walk; his head was stupid from his lectures; that old Jennings prosed so awfully upon Paley, it made him quite ill.

From Loss and Gain The Story of a Convert by John Henry Newman

Two brothers, counsellor and pleader, went Through life on terms of mutual compliment; That thought the other Gracchus, this supposed His brother Mucius; so they praised and prosed.

From The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry by John Conington

My dear, I seem to have prosed on for pages about Naples, but once started I couldn't stop.

From Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Life January-May, 1880; February-April, 1904 by Mary Alsop King Waddington

How he had argued and prosed for weeks as to whether they could afford these few days! although it was vacation, and Lufflin had sent free passes for the road.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 99, January, 1866 by Various

Most of the time all the spectator sees is Spencer Tracy sitting in a rowboat and mumbling to himself, and all he hears is Hemingway's own narrative prosing along the sound track.

From Time Magazine Archive

“That tiresome Mr Barnes always keeps you prosing in the vestry for half an hour,” struck in Sophie.

From Dorrien of Cranston by Bertram Mitford

A dull, sleepy, prosing minister is not the man for the west.

From Gleanings by the Way by John A. Clark

To sit there listening to Aunt Hester chirping and Uncle Reuben prosing, and see the blue eyes making love, in eloquent silence, to the black ones, was almost too much for human nature to endure.

From Norine's Revenge; Sir Noel's Heir by May Agnes Fleming

“And I shall be deservedly hanged,” say you, wishing to put an end to this prosing.

From Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by George Saintsbury