prose
noun
the ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse.
prosing
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present participleof prose.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
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
An intelligent and refined daughter may be unfortunate in a coarse, ignorant mother, or a prosing, tiresome, purse-proud father.
From The Ladies' Guide to True Politeness and Perfect Manners or, Miss Leslie's Behaviour Book by Eliza Leslie
"Sir," said Dr. Johnson, to some prosing tormentor, "I would rather a man would knock me down, than to begin to talk to me of the Punic wars."
From Practical Education, Volume II by Maria Edgeworth
And, as if to put an end to the General's prosing, he turned to Montague Maynard.
From A Traitor's Wooing by Headon Hill
A dull, sleepy, prosing minister is not the man for the west.
From Gleanings by the Way by John A. Clark
