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

Ms. Han renders the attempts to control Yeong-hye and her subversive responses in prose of transcendent power.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026

Some consumers may be content to scroll through passable AI-generated prose while fighting off pop-up ads.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 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

It may not be a coincidence that Greene, like many scientists since Galileo, is a lucid expositor of difficult ideas, because the ideal of classic prose is congenial to the worldview of the scientist.

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

Macallester next proses endlessly on the alleged Jesuit connection with Damien’s attack on Lous XV., and insists that the Jesuits, nobody knows why, meant to assassinate Prince Charles. 

From Pickle the Spy; Or, the Incognito of Prince Charles by Andrew Lang

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

Sometimes he proses, and sometimes he runs to seed.

From Emerson and Other Essays by John Jay Chapman

It was Fun to write jolly compositions and Fun to set proses out of George Meredith which bore no relation to classical thought or idiom and couldn't conceivably be translated into reasonable Latin or Greek.

From Years of Plenty by Ivor Brown

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

The Dean prosed on about the effects of the Ne Temere decree.

From The Red Hand of Ulster by George A. Birmingham

And when he had versed his verse and had prosed his prose, he again groaned and complained and remembered he had been and how he had been parted from his brother.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 03 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

He prosed away about that until I had to yawn, but they seemed to like it.

From Pixie O'Shaughnessy by William H. C. Groome

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

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

Hear Dryden prosing away upon paraphrase, and metaphrase, and imitation, in his very best style.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 by Various

I well recollect an adventure, the relation of which will set this system in a clearer light than if I were prosing for hours in the abstract.

From Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. I by Edmund Downey

An intelligent and refined daughter may be unfortunate in a coarse, ignorant mother, or a prosing, tiresome, purse-proud father.

From The Ladies' Guide to True Politeness and Perfect Manners or, Miss Leslie's Behaviour Book by Eliza Leslie

Lady Linacre, his nearest neighbour, was prosing on to Mrs. Burton Smith, his next nearest.

From Laid up in Lavender by Stanley J. Weyman