Example sentences for: prose

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

  • The Weekly Standard 's Christopher Caldwell bashes the New York Times Book Review . Its critics are mostly second-rate novelists who write turgid prose and "rave about demonstrably bad books."

  • Even in its first edition, his manual was more encyclopedic than others, packed with up-to-date medical and practical advice delivered in down-to-earth prose.

  • A congress of keyboard tappers so dedicated only the athletes have time to lift their heads and read everyone else's prose!

  • No one cares that Roy's prose is a breath-defying crush of run-together words and run-on sentences; strategically random capitalization and italicization; numbered lists; reversed words; adjectival clusters; acronyms; quotations from songs and poems; repeated images; and abrupt endings.

  • The LAT and WP stories, on the front pages of their respective papers, are written in prose much purpler than the NYT account.


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