prose

“Think of them as a cross between a lentil and a velociraptor,” the National Society of Professional Surveyors, a group not normally known for purple prose, warns on its website.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

But Mr. Sebag Montefiore’s muscular prose, blending highbrow erudition with blunt and occasionally vulgar humor, is indelible.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

Writing in newspaper Canard Enchaine, Fabrice Colin also criticised the formulaic sentence structure and said he "vainly looked for a unique voice" in the prose.

From Barron's ● Sep. 25, 2026

Musk also offered Trumpian prose: “Gutless Gibney’s fatal flaw of fabricating a false film.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

Good prose is never written by a committee.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

It contains drawings and proses which have nothing but a formal, not an illustrative or explanatory, relation to each other.

From Time Magazine Archive

On how many evenings had the sadness of life been dissipated in listening to these proses chanted in the churches!

From En Route by J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans

Never mind how the pedagogue proses, You want not antiquity's stamp; The lip, that such fragrance discloses, Oh! never should smell of the lamp.

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 4 by Burton Egbert Stevenson

Of the many proses which were composed, the Roman Catholic Church has retained but four, of which the above is one.

From Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 91, July 26, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

I held the little beast's head all over the Latin proses for Monday.

From Stalky & Co. by Rudyard Kipling

A similar bill prosed in the Senate would change visitation restrictions specifically for nursing homes, although the measure has not yet been placed on the Legislature’s agenda.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 3, 2021

The Dean prosed on about the effects of the Ne Temere decree.

From The Red Hand of Ulster by George A. Birmingham

Commend us to one picturesque, garrulous old fellow, like Froissart, or Philip de Comines, or Bishop Burnet, before all the philosophic prosers that ever prosed.

From The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg by James Hogg

"And yet he doesn't look in the least an Englishman," she still rather guardedly prosed.

From A Passionate Pilgrim by Henry James

He wanted a good walk; his head was stupid from his lectures; that old Jennings prosed so awfully upon Paley, it made him quite ill.

From Loss and Gain The Story of a Convert by John Henry Newman

Most of the time all the spectator sees is Spencer Tracy sitting in a rowboat and mumbling to himself, and all he hears is Hemingway's own narrative prosing along the sound track.

From Time Magazine Archive

“And I shall be deservedly hanged,” say you, wishing to put an end to this prosing.

From Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by George Saintsbury

He may be taught a trade, and that is what most of the versing and prosing is, I suppose.

From Imaginary Interviews by William Dean Howells

Whether sleeping, prosing, or schooling, every one flew out upon the ice on the instant, as if the magazine or the boiler was on the point of explosion.

From In the Arctic Seas A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and his Companions by Francis Leopold McClintock

Goodness knows what ineffable dinners, What drinks deleterious you've borne, What prosing from long-winded sinners You've endured with a patience unworn!

From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various