prose

IPA: prˈoʊz

Language, particularly written language, not intended as poetry.
Language which evinces little imagination or animation; dull and commonplace discourse.
(Roman Catholicism) A hymn with no regular meter, sometimes introduced into the Mass.
A surname from German.

Examples of "prose" in Sentences

I think that to capture another time in prose is a gift beyond worth.
Yasmin's (Anika Noni Rose) crime report to the police officer, in prose, is almost placid yet intense.
"Steeped in effective 19th-century archaism, yet steely in sustaining the story, the prose is as poetic as it is violent."
The primary issue in prose is motive: You have to understand why the people do what they do, or else the whole shebang falls apart as illusion.
Because I'm an art student, and a highly-visually-oriented person, one of the things I love the most about your prose is the lushness and the beautiful sentences.
She says the last thing she's fallen back on is line breaks, that poetry has line breaks, and therefore she refuses to use the term prose poetry, because it finally shatters the last bit of taxonomy she has.
As to the author's highly mannered style, it's not so much that his prose is awkward and lumbering — which it is! — just that the man's supreme lack of command for the English language is visible in every sentence, every phrase, every word, down to the smallest phoneme.
For practical convenience three main sorts of rhythmic prose may be distinguished: (1) _characteristic prose_, or that in which no regularity (coincidence) is easily appreciable; (2) _cadenced prose_, or that in which the regularity is perceptible, but unobtrusive, and (3) _metrical prose_, or that in which the regularity is so noticeable as to be unpleasing.