prosing
- present participle of prose.
Example Sentences
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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
On this head we suffer much good-natured prosing in ourselves and others.
From About London by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)
And, as if to put an end to the General's prosing, he turned to Montague Maynard.
From A Traitor's Wooing by Hill, Headon
Only one, an old friend of his father's, refused to be shaken off and sat prosing away quite oblivious of his listener's preoccupation till the words "your wife" arrested Cyril's wandering attention.
From Who? by Kent, Elizabeth
To sit there listening to Aunt Hester chirping and Uncle Reuben prosing, and see the blue eyes making love, in eloquent silence, to the black ones, was almost too much for human nature to endure.
From Norine's Revenge; Sir Noel's Heir by Fleming, May Agnes
