prose

Example Sentences

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He has a knack for turning seemingly unconnected subjects into elegant prose.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

The prose is clean and lucid, characters and cityscapes fully rendered, and “The Forsyte Saga” creates the pleasurable illusion that it might never end.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

He waxed poetic when it didn’t help his prose and overwrote shamelessly.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

The research suggests AI writing’s fluency and professionalism can be misread as credibility, warning companies against equating prose quality with case quality.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

Donald Byrne, the United States Open champion, said he was so on edge that he spent the entire day before the match trying not to think of chess, reading the romantic prose of Nathaniel Hawthorne.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady