Example Sentences

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He manages simultaneously to loathe the life he leads – still living with his parents in the north-east, perennially broke, prospectless – and to accept that his chess ability defines him.

From The Guardian • Nov. 20, 2015

It was the lonesomeness, of course, Ruth reflected, and perhaps a vision of 238 the dreary future, prospectless, hopeless, to be filled with the monotony of the past.

From The Range Boss by Schoonover, Frank Earle

But England and France, the leaders of Europe, the peregrinators of the world, cannot be confined to those lazy and prospectless paths.

From Captain Sword and Captain Pen A Poem by Hunt, Leigh

It is stagnating, it remains as formless and prospectless as the mist outside.

From Royal Highness by Mann, Thomas

If your life were as blank and prospectless as mine, you might have good reason indeed to sigh and complain.

From Honor Edgeworth Ottawa's Present Tense by Vera, [pseud.]