Example sentences for: prose

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

  • The prose in this "literary violation" reads "like a parody of Hemingway" (Deirdre Donahue, USA Today ). It "reflects a marvelous writer's disastrous loss of talent" (Kenneth S. Lynn, National Review ); a "sad, bloated, inert so-called book" (L.S.

  • Twentieth century American writers who have depicted large swaths of society in experimental prose include John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, and Thomas Pynchon.

  • In the last half-hour of Marleen Gorris' film of Mrs. Dalloway , Woolf's rhapsodic prose and Redgrave's radiant countenance combine for some of the most transcendentally beautiful cinema I have ever seen.

  • Slavin's uncluttered, room-temperature prose renders the monstrous familiar, even beautiful" (Charles Taylor, the New York Times Book Review ). Others note that "[i]t seems to be a common, almost universal, tactic in American literature to depict the suburbs as a duplicitous world where a safe, materialistic, blandly cheerful surface conceals a dark secret life" and that the stories' predictable outlandishness verges on becoming "precious" (Judy Budnitz, the Village Voice ). Or as Kirkus Reviews writes, "Slavin has a warped sense of humor and enjoys rubbing the reader's nose in it."

  • The unhinged prose that followed responded to an item filed by Newsweek reporter Daniel Klaidman.


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