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Example sentences for: prose

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

Eder says the prose has "so much that is implicit and hollowed out, so much emptiness between the sentences, that the reader is called upon to enter, invent and rearrange," and with "a shivery economy of means and a dreadful lavishness of effect, Mr. O'Nan advances the horror on parallel tracks."
That's another item my father left: his own poetry and his massive prose writings.
I blurbed The Kiss . The book scared me, not because it concerns incest or happens to be true but because of the malign figure of the father, who reminded me of the character played by Robert Mitchum in The Night of the Hunter . I also appreciated the drugged cadence of the prose, with a chasm between every two sentences, and the frozen stare of the insistent present tense.
Critics praise Tarloff's rendering of political power dynamics: "What makes the novel riveting is its almost anthropological description of the ebb and flow of power and status in official Washington" (Margaret Carlson, Time ). Overall, though, the dish is more appealing than the prose.
This is true of both poetry and prose.