prosaic

How to use prosaic in a sentence

Yet for all his ambitious foreign-policy goals, Abe was undone by far more prosaic domestic concerns.

The prosaic poetry of what passes for workaday life, all around, even in places and among people accustomed to danger.

Don’t miss out on a possible sale for something as prosaic as a needlessly complicated sign-up process.

Prosaic cow-punching was relegated to the rear and they looked eagerly forward to their several missions.

But it is startling indeed how suddenly sometimes the earth takes on a new wonderfulness, and Saint Prosaic a new halo.

A POOR MAN'S HOUSESTEPHEN SYDNEY REYNOLDS

Prosaic, unimaged, without poetry or myth, they dully persisted until pedlars appeared with Hellenic legends and wares.

Prosaic as these journeys may seem, they are nevertheless the inspiration of my hopes, the feeders of my visions.

Prosaic enough, however, was what she went on to tell him of her struggle for life by day and for learning by night.

Prosaic critics point out that such bowers were used as isolation huts for suspected cases.

BONNIE SCOTLANDA.R. HOPE MONCRIEFF

Prosaic commentators are always asking, Who is meant by a poet, as though a poem were a legal document.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985