prose

[ UK /pɹˈə‍ʊz/ ]
[ US /ˈpɹoʊz/ ]
NOUN
  1. ordinary writing as distinguished from verse
  2. matter of fact, commonplace, or dull expression
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How To Use prose In A Sentence

  • According to police and prosecutors, the two got into a fight after she told him he should be committed to a mental hospital.
  • Public Prosecutor told the court that the offences of threatening and insulting a woman's modesty are bailable, so there is no need to grant anticipatory bail.
  • Advertisers pretending to be private individuals will be liable to prosecution.
  • Nearly 40 parents were prosecuted for their child's non-attendance.
  • The prosecution has been given a week to decide whether to retry the case. Times, Sunday Times
  • And since the Department of Public Prosecutions are so hot on prosecuting hatred and bigotry, let me point out an example to them.
  • The consecutive statements, allegations, and counterallegations made in turn by plaintiff and defendant, or prosecutor and accused, in a legal proceeding.
  • The prose is of a rare stateliness and intelligence, studded with clever, sometimes almost epigrammatic mots.
  • These prose pieces ultimately acquire a kind of poetic intensity of effect in their bleak circumscription of the character's experience, although they avoid self-consciously "poetic" devices: Narrative Strategies
  • According to the prosecution, the officers manufactured an elaborate story.
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