Example sentences for: prose

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

  • Perhaps that's why he has always seemed to want to preclude critical judgment with pre-emptive strikes within his prose, anticipating our responses and silencing us.

  • He is, after all, a philosopher who writes good English prose in defense of the 100 percent American philosophy of pragmatism.

  • Besides, we read the Economist regularly, such a prize for its fine and lucid prose and its comprehensive worldwide coverage that fills the gaps left by the Times and the Wall Street Journal .

  • For ordering, Politics and Prose was by far the easiest.

  • Even for a Grisham novel, The Street Lawyer is said to be insubstantial, with "an unlikable hero, a slapdash plot and some truly awful prose" (Michiko Kakutani, the New York Times ). Grisham's social commentary is called both worthy and heavy-handed: His "depictions of the poor read like something turned in by a cub reporter" (Deirdre Donahue, USA Today ). The book is expected to sell out its 2.8-million-copy first run.


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