How to Use prosaic in a Sentence

prosaic

adjective

• He has a prosaic writing style.
• She believes the noises are made by ghosts, but I think there's a more prosaic explanation.
• Some researchers think the pulse has a kind of prosaic cause.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 21 Feb. 2022
• There are prosaic details in it that make the story seem richer as a song.
  — William Goodman, Billboard, 30 Jan. 2018
• The gain in prosaic realism comes at a loss in fairy tale magic.
  — Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2022
• Even the most prosaic items were fair game for financing.
  — Mac Schwerin, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2023
• Smart flush But the more promising might also be the more prosaic.
  — Scott Canon, kansascity, 22 July 2017
• The poignancy comes as a surprise because most of the preceding scenes are slack and prosaic.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2022
• In some ways, the event looks like a prosaic stellar explosion.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 8 Nov. 2017
• The book is filled with prosaic scenes of work and ritual, solitary faces and people in crowds.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Dec. 2022
• Usurpation abounds, at home and abroad, and seems never to be walled in by anything as prosaic as the law.
  — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 20 July 2017
• The state housing agency says its denial was based on a much more prosaic concern.
  — John Byrne, chicagotribune.com, 17 May 2018
• Dedmon is the more prosaic variety, though useful all the same.
  — Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 24 June 2019
• More often, though, the goals scored by cup-winning sides are prosaic.
  — Jody Rosen, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2022
• Ideas of freedom and ease persist in the more prosaic face of traffic jams and increasing fuel prices.
  — K.s-C., The Economist, 25 Nov. 2019
• That, perhaps, is a prosaic way to describe a sinkhole.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 31 July 2019
• There are, of course, more prosaic reasons for Orion to come back.
  — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 29 Nov. 2022
• That’s in addition to the more prosaic details that could lure a company.
  — Katherine Peralta and Ely Portillo, charlotteobserver, 19 Oct. 2017
• At the same time, a big incentive for his clients is a more prosaic concern: cutting costs.
  — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 28 Aug. 2023
• The writing, it must be said, settles for more prosaic achievements.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 17 Oct. 2019
• While that sounds fairly prosaic, seeing it in action will blow you away.
  — Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 26 Mar. 2010
• What interests me more than this utterly prosaic fact is the question of why.
  — Matthew Walther, TheWeek, 26 June 2020
• But even in the most prosaic circumstances, there are reasons for concern.
  — Joe Queenan, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2018
• For the non-tourist, even the Statue of Liberty may come to seem prosaic.
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 15 Sep. 2017
• And there are other, more prosaic explanations for the blips.
  — Dan Falk, Scientific American, 23 June 2020
• That’s a fascinating way to think about what is, in prosaic terms, the act of hanging pictures on a wall.
  — Steve Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 24 July 2019
• But Ulbricht’s fatal flaw would prove to be more prosaic.
  — Nick Bilton, The Hive, 19 June 2017
• The staging, working so hard to avoid all the furniture, is likewise too prosaic.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 22 June 2017
• Their world has been upended, and something as prosaic as a trip to the airport now inspires terror.
  — New York Times, 21 Aug. 2021
• What might seem like a prosaic choice is actually more than capable of thrilling the couple.
  — Emma Specter, Vogue, 14 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024