prose
Example Sentences
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He has a knack for turning seemingly unconnected subjects into elegant prose.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
The prose is clean and lucid, characters and cityscapes fully rendered, and “The Forsyte Saga” creates the pleasurable illusion that it might never end.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
“It writes with absolute, unwavering confidence but strips out all specific, concrete details, resulting in prose that sounds authoritative but evaporates the moment you try to extract actual meaning from it.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026
Because these models are made by risk-averse tech companies, the prose is rich with phrases that hedge.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026
Writers acquire their technique by spotting, savoring, and reverse-engineering examples of good prose.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
