Example sentences for: prosaic

How can you use “prosaic” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In 1986 I became a Sex Symbol, fulfilling a lifelong ambition, when Chamberlain's Second Law was published in Cosmopolitan . The Law is itself a bit more prosaic: Everything tastes more or less like chicken . And by 1988, Chamberlain's Second Law and Borkowski's Law had become Xerox art--those unattributed photocopies of vulgarity and cheap wit that circulate around offices.

  • If the aforementioned qualms about multiple births don't seem decisive, the NYT has a more prosaic consideration: the 35,000 diapers that the septuplets' parents will have to change.

  • The main street that leads to the Spanish Steps, despite its present concentration of elegant and renowned boutiques, has the most prosaic of names: Via Condotti , after the aged conduits that serve the nearby Trevi Fountain.

  • The NYT take on the Israel-Syria talks mentions a prosaic angle behind the sudden turn of events: Yasser Arafat is scheduled to see President Clinton at the White House on Thursday and the Syrians didn't much relish "languishing" down in West Virginia during those festivities.

  • This is a film that disdains prosaic time and space.


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