How to Use prose in a Sentence

prose

1 of 2 noun
Definition of prosenext
Synonyms for prosenext
  • She writes in very clear prose.
  • If a book is a work of prose and the prose is bad, the book is bad.
    — New York Times, 7 Dec. 2023
  • If this reads to you more like prose than verse, that’s part of the point.
    — David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023
  • He was known for years for long scripts laced with prose.
    — Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Novey's prose, brisk and direct, tacks back and forth in time.
    — Joan Frank, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2023
  • But the tech isn’t just helping Zoomers with writing prose.
    — Danielle Abril, Washington Post, 28 June 2023
  • Her prose is sparse and fragmented, told in verse-like glimpses.
    — Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2024
  • Her surroundings come alive in prose that lives and breathes upon the page.
    — Lorraine Berry, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2023
  • In sharp, simple prose, Pyle explained to those back home the conditions of life and death on the front.
    — Ernie Pyle, Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2023
  • The magic of the novel is in Rowbottom’s lush and tender prose.
    — Hazlitt, 12 Apr. 2023
  • The Paris Review stopped by her home for an interview about prose.
    — Kevin Sieff, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2023
  • The biggest use case is still writing dodgy prose for search engines.
    — David Marchese David Marchese, New York Times, 1 May 2023
  • Do had poet Ocean Vuong, a friend, write a prose that appeared on the runway and across tank tops and shirting.
    — Rachel Tashjian, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2023
  • The prose itself in Wolfish is brisk and essayistic, and makes for a compelling read.
    — Colin Dickey, The New Republic, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Davis ends her collection with a lyrical work of prose.
    — Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Jan. 2023
  • But that's not to say the roots of great romance prose are not there amidst the mouthfuls of following your thoughts through to conclusion.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Where’s the membrane between song and prose and poetry?
    — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 23 July 2023
  • In elegant prose, Eig presents King in full, capturing both the heroism and the frailties of the civil rights icon.
    — Monitor Reviewers, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 May 2023
  • Although the prose reads like an excited high school student, the specifics of the essay itself leave much to be desired.
    — Christopher Rim, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2023
  • There is perhaps more than enough tragedy to go around, but Feeney’s prose is beautifully crisp.
    — The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2023
  • Smith, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, writes dazzling prose.
    — Stephanie Merry, Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Your prose feels like a natural extension of your lyrics.
    — William Earl, Variety, 25 July 2023
  • The historical details were, of course, only a side dish; the main course was romance, served in prose typical of the genre.
    — Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 21 June 2023
  • Vuong is a poet, and that comes across in the lyrical prose, which finds beauty and grace in the ugliest and most desperate of scenarios.
    — Jordyn Taylor, Men's Health, 11 Jan. 2023
  • But the voiceovers also feel like lumps of prose in a film too busy navel-gazing to build narrative shape or momentum.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Feb. 2024
  • Now her new memoir animates the same land while excavating the past in prose.
    — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 14 Oct. 2023
  • The consolation on offer lives mostly in the prose, which feels hardened by a world-weary resolve not to be conned by false hope.
    — Peter C. Baker, The New Yorker, 7 July 2023
  • His prose was now rich but austere, shorn of most punctuation.
    — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 13 June 2023
  • In surreal prose, Chen offers a sobering look at the pandemic two years in.
    — Nicole R. Zimmerman, Longreads, 9 Mar. 2023
  • In vivid prose, Moore demonstrates why Franklin was so energized by his travels to London.
    — Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 July 2023
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prose

2 of 2 verb
  • Around 10 to 15 people from across North Texas gathered to share short stories and prose with each other.
    — Dallas News, 14 Nov. 2022
  • There’s so much prose writing and so little screenplay writing, and that blew my mind.
    — Rebecca Sun, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Sep. 2022
  • But sometimes prose isn't the best in terms of precision, and almost always lacks in economy.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 27 June 2011
  • Sea of Strangers is an earnest and raw collection of poetry and prose that pushes the reader to think about self-discovery and love.
    — Swarna Gowtham, Town & Country, 1 Aug. 2022
  • Even prose unfolds in clauses, sentences and paragraphs.
    — Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2020
  • Historians must write and speak up in the clearest language, in prose our grandmothers can read.
    — David W. Blight, The New Yorker, 9 June 2021
  • We are brought up understanding the iambic form and how that works; how when Shakespeare moves from verse to prose there is a process — horrible word again! — going on.
    — David Marchesephotograph By Mamadi Doumbouya, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2021
  • Anti-colonial polemic enlivens prose about his quest for a place his fluid self might move within rigid lines of identity.
    — Washington Post, 6 July 2021
  • Writers can submit 500 words or less of poetry or prose and make a two-to-three-minute recording of themselves reading what they’ve written in MP4 format.
    — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Aug. 2021
  • One of this novel’s striking achievements is to offer murky conjecture in crisp, dry, stately (yet unshowy) prose.
    — Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2021
  • Taylor mixes stanzas and prose blocks with photographs and collages and timelines.
    — Ryan Lee Wong, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Austin can sometimes lapse - or allow Lydia to lapse - into the kind of breathless prose more endemic to old-fashioned romance novels.
    — Steve Donoghue, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Aug. 2020
  • Etiwanda stands out Hearts pumping, blood rushing through their veins in the pregame locker room before a game, the Etiwanda girls’ basketball players turns to prose.
    — Eric Sondheimer Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2022
  • There, before and after his Army service, and into the decade that followed, Stanley became one of many typists and scribblers providing copy for word balloons and prose for the books’ filler pages.
    — Stephanie Burt, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2021
  • The key pleasure of this adventure tale is bouncing along to burnished prose that never takes itself too seriously.
    — Chloe Schama, Vogue, 14 Sep. 2022
  • Yet Pattison’s reporting and prose bring the readers into the excitement of scenes that turn on these details, such as when White and his colleagues realize that all human species, new and old, seem to have a facet in their cuboid foot bone.
    — Stephanie Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Dec. 2020
  • Penny, who taught poetry and prose at the University of Alabama for 21 years, died in Huntsville, Ala., according to his obituary.
    — Emlyn Travis, EW.com, 30 Dec. 2022
  • Written in a form that’s not prose and not poetry, but some amalgam in which Grant’s observations are both elliptical and elusive, the memoir hints at things so large that words alone don’t suffice.
    — Washington Post, 24 Dec. 2020
  • Eyman writes in lively prose that benefits from his command of classic Hollywood.
    — Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Nov. 2020
  • On this particular morning the poet Ilya Kaminsky started a thread asking for pieces of poetry or prose that dealt with memory.
    — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2022
  • Politics, warfare, the relation between states and—a surprise?—men were its subjects, and Thucydides’ grave, stately prose resounded for centuries.
    — James M. Banner Jr., WSJ, 2 Apr. 2021
  • Torres uses an innovative form — prose in columns shoved to either side of the page — to capture disorientation of code-switching.
    — Elizabeth Hoover Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 2 Oct. 2020
  • Her prose easily floats between humor and pain, and her pragmatic but gentle approach to complicated topics sets her apart from some of her more dogmatic peers.
    — New York Times, 24 Mar. 2021
  • With these searching long poems and prose sketches, Sebald was reaching for a different kind of writing—an antidote to the silence in German life, and to the hypocrisy in German literature, that drove him to the margins of his discipline.
    — Max Norman, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2021
  • Jughead continues to deliver overwrought prose through voiceover.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2021
  • Novelist Ha Jing paints in unaffected prose the struggles of immigrant life and the tensions between artistic drive and family duty.
    — Monitor Reviewers, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 July 2021
  • Publications and culture sites focused on politics, not prose.
    — Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2020
  • Wellness may be a buzzword, and non-alcoholic elixirs may already be a hot commodity in the millennial fridge, but where products and prose fail to make space for new social dynamics, Remedy Place has plenty of it.
    — Natalie Stoclet, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2022
  • According to his report, written in tortured prose even by his dismal standards, Irving wasn’t being held captive by misinformation or a fear of needles.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Moore’s captivating prose weaves in and out of time and place from Virginia to Monrovia, Liberia, telling the story of warriors and heroes with supernatural abilities designed for liberation.
    — Staff, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 June 2021

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