prose

It’s very sentimental — which the novel, with its matter-of-fact, if sensually evocative prose, and it’s child’s eye view, is not.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026

Jefferson’s default prose is 18th-century elevator music, clear and tinkling.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

But his impenetrable prose -- used to avoid committing to any particular course -- and his confidence in unfettered markets and institutions to correct themselves frustrated critics, who believed the US economy needed stronger guardrails.

From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 2026

The prose will be aimed less at the high-falutin readers of literary magazines and more at young people with an interest in the cultural zeitgeist.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026

What we did was terrible, but still I don’t think any of us were bad, exactly; chalk it up to weakness on my part, hubris on Henry’s, too much Greek prose composition—whatever you like.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Never mind how the pedagogue proses,   You want not antiquity's stamp, The lip that's so scented by roses,   Oh! never must smell of the lamp.

From The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe by Parton, James

Of the many proses which were composed, the Roman Catholic Church has retained but four, of which the above is one.

From Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 91, July 26, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

I never yawn when he proses, and his daughter does.

From Armadale by Collins, Wilkie

He adopted an entirely new style of versification and music, derived from popular songs; and he and his successors in 34the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries wrote various proses for the Christmas festival.

From Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan by Miles, Clement A.

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

For exactly twenty-one minutes she prosed on uninterruptedly, like a stream flowing over its bed; never stopped to take breath once.

From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Mitford, Bertram

By far the most important portion of what one calls education, I owe to him; yet he never preached, or prosed, or played the pedagogue.

From McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 3, February 1896 by Various

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

Aunt Griselda received Sir Hugh graciously, and prosed gently to him of his father’s death; but Hugh turned the conversation skillfully to herself and Fay.

From Wee Wifie by Carey, Rosa Nouchette

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

You may thank your stars that I do not give way to my inclination, for you would have more prosing than you would care to read.

From Memoir of Mary L. Ware, Wife of Henry Ware, Jr. by Hall, Edward B.

And to the same authority we are indebted for a judge's gentle but sarcastic reproof of a prosing counsel.

From Law and Laughter by Morton, George A. (George Alexander)

On this head we suffer much good-natured prosing in ourselves and others. 

From About London by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)

I wonder he didn’t stop drowned if he was surrounded by people who kept on prosing like you are.”

From Hunting the Skipper The Cruise of the "Seafowl" Sloop by Piffard, Harold