prose
noun
the ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse.
were prosing
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past progressiveof prose.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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You were prosing only yesterday afternoon about work and duty, as if nothing could separate you from Harmouth.
From Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 by Various
I well recollect an adventure, the relation of which will set this system in a clearer light than if I were prosing for hours in the abstract.
From Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. I by Edmund Downey
