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UK
/pɹˈəʊz/
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[ US /ˈpɹoʊz/ ]
[ US /ˈpɹoʊz/ ]
NOUN
- ordinary writing as distinguished from verse
- matter of fact, commonplace, or dull expression
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.
- The first exhibit was a knife which the prosecution claimed was the murder weapon.
- 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