How to Use prose in a Sentence

prose

1 of 3 noun

• She writes in very clear prose.
• If a book is a work of prose and the prose is bad, the book is bad.
  — New York Times, 7 Dec. 2023
• If this reads to you more like prose than verse, that’s part of the point.
  — David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023
• He was known for years for long scripts laced with prose.
  — Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2023
• Novey's prose, brisk and direct, tacks back and forth in time.
  — Joan Frank, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2023
• But the tech isn’t just helping Zoomers with writing prose.
  — Danielle Abril, Washington Post, 28 June 2023
• Her prose is sparse and fragmented, told in verse-like glimpses.
  — Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2024
• Her surroundings come alive in prose that lives and breathes upon the page.
  — Lorraine Berry, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2023
• In sharp, simple prose, Pyle explained to those back home the conditions of life and death on the front.
  — Ernie Pyle, Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2023
• The magic of the novel is in Rowbottom’s lush and tender prose.
  — Hazlitt, 12 Apr. 2023
• The Paris Review stopped by her home for an interview about prose.
  — Kevin Sieff, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2023
• The biggest use case is still writing dodgy prose for search engines.
  — David Marchese David Marchese, New York Times, 1 May 2023
• Do had poet Ocean Vuong, a friend, write a prose that appeared on the runway and across tank tops and shirting.
  — Rachel Tashjian, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2023
• The prose itself in Wolfish is brisk and essayistic, and makes for a compelling read.
  — Colin Dickey, The New Republic, 31 Mar. 2023
• Davis ends her collection with a lyrical work of prose.
  — Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Jan. 2023
• But that's not to say the roots of great romance prose are not there amidst the mouthfuls of following your thoughts through to conclusion.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 2 Dec. 2022
• Where’s the membrane between song and prose and poetry?
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 23 July 2023
• In elegant prose, Eig presents King in full, capturing both the heroism and the frailties of the civil rights icon.
  — Monitor Reviewers, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 May 2023
• Although the prose reads like an excited high school student, the specifics of the essay itself leave much to be desired.
  — Christopher Rim, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2023
• There is perhaps more than enough tragedy to go around, but Feeney’s prose is beautifully crisp.
  — The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2023
• Smith, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, writes dazzling prose.
  — Stephanie Merry, Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2023
• Your prose feels like a natural extension of your lyrics.
  — William Earl, Variety, 25 July 2023
• The historical details were, of course, only a side dish; the main course was romance, served in prose typical of the genre.
  — Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 21 June 2023
• Vuong is a poet, and that comes across in the lyrical prose, which finds beauty and grace in the ugliest and most desperate of scenarios.
  — Jordyn Taylor, Men's Health, 11 Jan. 2023
• But the voiceovers also feel like lumps of prose in a film too busy navel-gazing to build narrative shape or momentum.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Feb. 2024
• Now her new memoir animates the same land while excavating the past in prose.
  — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 14 Oct. 2023
• The consolation on offer lives mostly in the prose, which feels hardened by a world-weary resolve not to be conned by false hope.
  — Peter C. Baker, The New Yorker, 7 July 2023
• His prose was now rich but austere, shorn of most punctuation.
  — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 13 June 2023
• His ear for language was evident in his oratory and in his prose.
  — Danielle Amir Jackson, The Atlantic, 26 Mar. 2024
• Already apparent is the studied and graceful clumsiness for which his prose is renowned.
  — Benjamin Kunkel, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024

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prose

2 of 3 adjective

• The prose style is half of what makes the book so powerful.
  — Vivian Shaw, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2020
• The subject matter may be challenging, but the prose projects hope for the survivors.
  — Monitor Reviewers, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Dec. 2022
• The endgame for a funny writer, in short, is much more likely in television than in prose humor.
  — Kate Knibbs, Wired, 22 Oct. 2020
• Passages of prose alternate with sonnets and canzoni on the theme of love, but the author doesn’t trust us to understand them.
  — Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2021
• Ryan Hockensmith’s prose zips along in this gripping tale of a grizzly bear attack.
  — Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 13 Mar. 2023
• Chopra writes in a prose style that is both unflinching and unsentimental.
  — Annie Berke, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2022
• The world Coetzee has constructed bears resemblance to his prose style.
  — Christian Lorentzen, Harper's Magazine, 18 Aug. 2020
• The writer whom Winston Churchill recommended for lessons in prose style gives a subtly self-mocking account of his travels in the Middle East.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 June 2022
• After the death of Beatrice (1290), Dante can offer prose explanations linking the poems.
  — Lyndall Gordon, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2022
• In prose much livelier than his predecessor’s, Mr. Jones places the oceans at the center of modern globalization.
  — Marc Levinson, WSJ, 13 Sep. 2021
• It’s a family saga that combines the denseness of prose fiction with the specific advantages of television.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 11 Mar. 2022
• Again, Victory City is a philosophical feast and a prose symphony.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 3 Apr. 2023
• With exacting clarity, Danticat offers a kind of prose hymn to the collective sorrow that emerges only in the wake of profound, wide-ranging loss.
  — Erin Overbey, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2021
• Many reviewers took this idea literally, treating the book less as literature than as a prose equivalent of a TV show.
  — Adam Kirsch, The New Republic, 22 Mar. 2022
• Her new novel is a genre bender: a murder story whose prose sings and snickers and soars as engagingly as Chang’s literary fiction.
  — Washington Post, 29 Jan. 2022
• The biblical texts of these four are more prose than poetry, and Burton and Garritson shaped them into an expressive arc from chaos and despair to acceptance and peace, landing in the purpose of a life lived with love.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 26 May 2022
• Seneca went on to become a proselyte for the Stoic path, extolling its benefits in a long run of prose essays while also serving—in some eyes, dishonorably—as an adviser to Nero.
  — James Romm, WSJ, 17 Dec. 2021
• More sophisticated word-pirates will then rewrite the text, paraphrasing it - generally to the detriment of the prose quality.
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 15 Jan. 2014
• Most are prose, although poetry and quotations (from the likes of Robert Frost and Alice Walker) are included, along with photos and art (some in color) and, curiously mixed in, letters to the journal and lists of benefactors.
  — Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Oct. 2021
• In two experiments, students first studied prose passages.
  — Bridgid Finn, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2010
• It’s iterated obsessively in many different ways, from the problem of describing the Antarctic landscape to the prose poetry spoken by the fluent aphasics in Robert’s support group.
  — Christopher Tayler, Harper's Magazine, 17 Aug. 2021
• In the starched prose style of a naturalist, the wizard detailed nearly two decades of spirit conjurations and regular interactions with ancient evil entities such as Paimon and Belial.
  — Kent Russell, Harper's Magazine, 11 May 2022
• That meta storyline — a romance-writing protagonist within a romance novel whose dreams mysteriously become prose — can be a little hard to follow at the outset.
  — Usa Today Staff, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2021
• Small moments like this, rendered in prose that’samusingly fussy yet still lucid, elevate The Meaning of Mariah Carey from celebrity propaganda into impressive storytelling.
  — The Atlantic Culture Desk, The Atlantic, 24 Dec. 2020
• An original story rather than one of the transformations of existing material that currently clog the opera world, her text is largely prose, and never purple; modest arias arise naturally out of the dialogue.
  — New York Times, 22 July 2022
• Striking prose and unforgettable characters—including a young Black woman in relentless pursuit of justice—make for a shocking page-turner and timely reflection.
  — Véronique Hyland, ELLE, 18 May 2022
• Significantly, Waugh compared Greene to Somerset Maugham, another great storyteller whose prose style was undistinguished but who nonetheless had an uncanny flair for telling tales that captivated the reading public.
  — Terry Teachout, National Review, 4 Mar. 2021
• Although her work evolved to encompass long poems, prose fiction, memoir, mystical essays, and translations of drama by Euripides, she remains closely identified with the exquisite miniatures of her early Imagist period.
  — Charlie Tyson, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2022
• The prose style is half of what makes the book so powerful.
  — Vivian Shaw, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2020
• The subject matter may be challenging, but the prose projects hope for the survivors.
  — Monitor Reviewers, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Dec. 2022

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pro se

3 of 3 adjective or adverb

• McGrath also ordered the county to repay a $25 fee a cleveland.com reporter paid to file the pro se lawsuit.
  — Cory Shaffer, cleveland.com, 26 Feb. 2018
• Bryant then asked the Ohio Supreme Court to take up his case in a pro se filing, without the assistance of an attorney, and the court accepted.
  — Cory Shaffer, cleveland, 7 June 2022
• Represent yourself in court pro se, or on your own behalf, with caution.
  — New York Times, 18 Apr. 2020
• On his own, with no legal training, Kameny wrote and filed a pro se appeal to the Supreme Court — the first time the rights of gays, or lack thereof, were taken to the nation’s highest court.
  — Michael S. Rosenwald, Washington Post, 9 June 2018
• The lawsuits were filed pro se, meaning that the plaintiffs represented themselves without the help of attorneys.
  — cleveland, 8 June 2022
• Aside from pro se, your options include any one of the following (or a combination thereof), in order of least to most expensive and starting at about $2,000.
  — Charlotte Cowles, The Cut, 26 Oct. 2017
• The proportion of civil cases wherein one party is unrepresented, or pro se, has grown massively since the 1970s.
  — Kathryn Joyce, The New Republic, 22 June 2020
• Using pro se, activists speak freely in ways that might get a real lawyer professionally reprimanded.
  — Carole Sargent, The Conversation, 8 Dec. 2021
• Often, pro se litigants are left waiting for extended periods of time on court dockets, for instance the domestic violence docket.
  — Nick Hollkamp, The Courier-Journal, 16 May 2018
• For example, instead of trying to fund lawyers for litigants who might otherwise represent themselves, legal processes could be made more friendly to pro se representation.
  — Jonathan H. Adler, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2017
• Recently, representing herself pro se, Ms. Hettara tried to use Ms. Ratajkowski’s allegations to have her custody restored.
  — Jessica Testa, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2020
• Navarro was previously pro se and representing himself.
  — Ali Dukakis, ABC News, 17 June 2022
• During courtroom proceedings, judges report, pro se litigants often fail to raise objections or properly introduce evidence.
  — Jonathan H. Adler, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2017

Last Updated: 19 Oct 2024