prose
Example Sentences
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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
Trotzig’s lush language, rendered fluidly in Saskia Vogel’s translation, resembles poetry more than prose.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
He waxed poetic when it didn’t help his prose and overwrote shamelessly.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026
The research suggests AI writing’s fluency and professionalism can be misread as credibility, warning companies against equating prose quality with case quality.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026
But when they came, their obdurate, elliptical prose offered no choices.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
