How to Use prose in a Sentence

prose

1 of 3 noun

• She writes in very clear prose.
• That’s why prose can feel hot on the page.
  — Walt Hunter, The Atlantic, 4 June 2026
• Teachers heaped praise on my prose.
  — Alexandra Romanoff, Vogue, 10 Feb. 2026
• If this reads to you more like prose than verse, that’s part of the point.
  — David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023
• If a book is a work of prose and the prose is bad, the book is bad.
  — New York Times, 7 Dec. 2023
• Novey's prose, brisk and direct, tacks back and forth in time.
  — Joan Frank, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2023
• Inscrutable lines plucked from Nazir’s dense prose were mocked and memed.
  — Will Oremus, The Atlantic, 3 July 2026
• Her prose is sparse and fragmented, told in verse-like glimpses.
  — Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2024
• To give up your ability to be moved by a work of prose is a big loss for you.
  — Adrienne Lafrance, The Atlantic, 22 Jan. 2026
• And yet the value of a novel isn’t only in its prose.
  — Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2026
• Yet the models comply more often if asked in verse than in prose.
  — James Folta, Literary Hub, 21 Nov. 2025
• But this role demands a rare blend - fluency in both prose and code.
  — Adrian Bridgwater, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
• The biggest use case is still writing dodgy prose for search engines.
  — David Marchese David Marchese, New York Times, 1 May 2023
• Her surroundings come alive in prose that lives and breathes upon the page.
  — Lorraine Berry, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2023
• Sometimes a song captures a mood better than any prose.
  — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 27 Feb. 2026
• Writing prose and books seemed like a loftier calling.
  — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 17 Sep. 2025
• This is a hybrid work of prose and image and poetry.
  — Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2025
• Games that look like bland prose on paper become works of epic poetry.
  — Phil Hay, New York Times, 16 July 2026
• The book is a mix of her prose, poetry, songs and photographs.
  — Elizabeth Marie Himchak, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Aug. 2025
• His prose was now rich but austere, shorn of most punctuation.
  — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 13 June 2023
• Wood’s book is smaller in scale, but fuller in color; much of her prose is lush and surprising.
  — Robert Rubsam, The Atlantic, 26 Mar. 2026
• The prose demanded that a discussion would need to be implied in the text.
  — Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 24 June 2026
• The Paris Review stopped by her home for an interview about prose.
  — Kevin Sieff, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2023
• The prose is ecstatic and freaky and muscular.
  — Literary Hub, 8 Sep. 2025
• His prose has a photographic quality that just takes my breath away.
  — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2026
• The college essay is, in effect, a pitch deck in prose — why that student, why now, what's the through line.
  — Joash Lee, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
• Told in beautiful prose, this debut takes readers from Texas to the deep sea.
  — Caroline Reilly, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
• So, each novel has emerged from this obsession with perfecting your own prose.
  — Merve Emre, New Yorker, 28 June 2026
• Through the fall, each writer would create two pieces of prose—fiction or nonfiction.
  — Literary Hub, 15 Dec. 2025
• Beautiful prose is nice, but this is about clarity of intent.
  — Jd Barker, Rolling Stone, 16 Apr. 2026

prose

2 of 3 adjective

• But that sequence of prose idylls was the core of the collection.
  — Literary Hub, 12 Dec. 2025
• Nonetheless, there is no denying its piracy of the prose tale.
  — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2026
• The subject matter may be challenging, but the prose projects hope for the survivors.
  — Monitor Reviewers, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Dec. 2022
• Books provide patterns of speech, prose and proper grammar, among other things.
  — Dale Nelson, Forbes.com, 2 July 2025
• Generally this means books that are prose-light, plot-forward, and propulsive.
  — Literary Hub, 5 Mar. 2026
• The endgame for a funny writer, in short, is much more likely in television than in prose humor.
  — Kate Knibbs, Wired, 22 Oct. 2020
• Hers is prose in which sentences judder and disintegrate and run over each other.
  — Book Marks august 28, Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2025
• Ryan Hockensmith’s prose zips along in this gripping tale of a grizzly bear attack.
  — Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 13 Mar. 2023
• Chopra writes in a prose style that is both unflinching and unsentimental.
  — Annie Berke, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2022
• The first draft was incredibly experimental in terms of the prose style.
  — Peter Larsen, Oc Register, 23 Apr. 2026
• Passages of prose alternate with sonnets and canzoni on the theme of love, but the author doesn’t trust us to understand them.
  — Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2021
• The world Coetzee has constructed bears resemblance to his prose style.
  — Christian Lorentzen, Harper's Magazine, 18 Aug. 2020
• The result is a genre of prose writing that continues to shock, titillate and entertain.
  — Literary Hub, 30 June 2026
• Queen is also a poet, scholar, and prose writer, and her ear for music and sizzling intelligence are clear form page one.
  — Diana Arterian august 21, Literary Hub, 21 Aug. 2025
• Politics, religion, love, prose style.
  — Literary Hub, 11 Feb. 2026
• Frere-Jones manages to make Hardwick’s sometimes impenetrable prose sound like the coolest hat trick.
  — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 24 July 2025
• Not enough people look back to the ancient world, which is more associated with epic poetry about gods and war than prose compositions.
  — Literary Hub, 30 June 2026
• Lavery is one of my favorite writers and one of the funniest prose stylists of his generation—I’m very excited for this one.
  — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Jan. 2026
• Again, Victory City is a philosophical feast and a prose symphony.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 3 Apr. 2023
• The ancient prose treatise on the subject of pleasure (kama) provides a brief discussion of men of a third nature (tritiya prakriti) who take the form of women or men.
  — Charles Preston, Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 May 2026
• When Mayor Mamdani released his preliminary budget last week, the public got to see what governing with prose looks like.
  — Paul Francis, New York Daily News, 22 Feb. 2026
• As fiction films do something analogous to what is done in prose forms like the novel and the short story, so nonfiction films can have a broad choice of nonfiction literary models.
  — Susan Sontag, Vogue, 26 Oct. 2025
• Breton’s often tortuous and highly idiomatic prose style presents an enormous challenge to translators.
  — Susan Rubin Suleiman, The New York Review of Books, 4 July 2026
• Many reviewers took this idea literally, treating the book less as literature than as a prose equivalent of a TV show.
  — Adam Kirsch, The New Republic, 22 Mar. 2022
• With exacting clarity, Danticat offers a kind of prose hymn to the collective sorrow that emerges only in the wake of profound, wide-ranging loss.
  — Erin Overbey, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2021
• Assorted writers across professions are being falsely accused of using AI if their prose style happens to match that of a large language model.
  — Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 30 May 2026
• More sophisticated word-pirates will then rewrite the text, paraphrasing it - generally to the detriment of the prose quality.
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 15 Jan. 2014
• The writer whom Winston Churchill recommended for lessons in prose style gives a subtly self-mocking account of his travels in the Middle East.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 June 2022
• After the death of Beatrice (1290), Dante can offer prose explanations linking the poems.
  — Lyndall Gordon, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2022
• But Carlos Orsi, a scientific journalist with a punchy prose style, gives a lot of credit to what astrology has meant to human beings over the past thousands of years.
  — David Frum, The Atlantic, 20 May 2026

pro se

3 of 3 adjective or adverb

• Dufresne’s pro se scheme was no exception.
  — Anat Rubin, ProPublica, 4 Nov. 2023
• Melekhin presented his case pro se—that is, without a lawyer.
  — Joshua Yaffa, New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2025
• Represent yourself in court pro se, or on your own behalf, with caution.
  — New York Times, 18 Apr. 2020
• Rahmani explained the challenges judges face when working with plaintiffs who are pro se.
  — Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 25 Mar. 2025
• That resulted in a court hearing at which Toth (who is not a lawyer) appeared pro se.
  — Robert Goulder, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
• As is typical for pro se lawsuits, most have been dismissed quickly.
  — Ryan Oehrli, Charlotte Observer, 20 Feb. 2024
• Among them are several men whose pro se petitions the 5th Circuit had ignored.
  — Anat Rubin, ProPublica, 4 Nov. 2023
• Experts at the clinic taught immigrants how to represent themselves in court without a lawyer — or in legal language, pro se.
  — Dallas News, 20 Dec. 2022
• Markus noted in the filing that Maxwell intends to file the petition pro se, meaning on her own behalf and without a lawyer.
  — Ella Lee, The Hill, 9 Dec. 2025
• The lawsuits were filed pro se, meaning that the plaintiffs represented themselves without the help of attorneys.
  — cleveland, 8 June 2022
• Using pro se, activists speak freely in ways that might get a real lawyer professionally reprimanded.
  — Carole Sargent, The Conversation, 8 Dec. 2021
• Once in prison, Brown filed a series of pro se appeals and then obtained lawyers who filed a 440 motion to vacate the conviction.
  — Graham Rayman, New York Daily News, 13 Mar. 2025
• Judges often view pro se appeals skeptically because they are filed by people who are not only untrained in the law but sometimes barely literate.
  — Anat Rubin, ProPublica, 4 Nov. 2023
• Bryant then asked the Ohio Supreme Court to take up his case in a pro se filing, without the assistance of an attorney, and the court accepted.
  — Cory Shaffer, cleveland, 7 June 2022
• Attorneys and pro se litigants alike are bombarding courts with fictious filings that drain the Court's limited resources.
  — Jay Adkisson, Forbes.com, 9 Jan. 2026
• While attorneys track these details routinely, pro se filers must manage everything on their own, increasing the likelihood of missteps.
  — Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 23 Apr. 2026
• Often, pro se litigants are left waiting for extended periods of time on court dockets, for instance the domestic violence docket.
  — Nick Hollkamp, The Courier-Journal, 16 May 2018
• This means that every year nearly two million people are forced—in one of the most complex areas of law—to appear pro se against the federal government, which is always represented by a lawyer.
  — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 17 Nov. 2025
• The petition was filed pro se, indicating that Maxwell is representing herself in the proceedings.
  — Tim Stelloh, NBC news, 18 Dec. 2025
• Roughly 1,400 people a year file pro se lawsuits in New York’s Southern District, most are dismissed.
  — Graham Rayman, New York Daily News, 7 July 2025
• Aside from pro se, your options include any one of the following (or a combination thereof), in order of least to most expensive and starting at about $2,000.
  — Charlotte Cowles, The Cut, 26 Oct. 2017
• The proportion of civil cases wherein one party is unrepresented, or pro se, has grown massively since the 1970s.
  — Kathryn Joyce, The New Republic, 22 June 2020
• On his own, with no legal training, Kameny wrote and filed a pro se appeal to the Supreme Court — the first time the rights of gays, or lack thereof, were taken to the nation’s highest court.
  — Michael S. Rosenwald, Washington Post, 9 June 2018
• In the years that Peterson was rejecting pro se petitions, the 5th Circuit denied claims that ended in at least five exonerations.
  — Anat Rubin, ProPublica, 4 Nov. 2023
• After consulting with his parents, Dempsey decided not to retain counsel as an objector and instead represent himself pro se, figuring his words might carry more weight that way.
  — Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 3 Sep. 2019
• So far, the majority of AI hallucinations in Charlotin’s database come from pro se litigants, but many have also come from lawyers themselves.
  — Angela Yang, NBC news, 8 Oct. 2025
• For example, instead of trying to fund lawyers for litigants who might otherwise represent themselves, legal processes could be made more friendly to pro se representation.
  — Jonathan H. Adler, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2017
• During courtroom proceedings, judges report, pro se litigants often fail to raise objections or properly introduce evidence.
  — Jonathan H. Adler, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2017
• The Scott County Law Library offers free legal clinics open to self-representing (pro se) litigants multiple times a month.
  — Contributed Content, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2025
• Anderson then filed a pro se lawsuit against Westchester County alleging malicious prosecution.
  — Emma Seiwell, New York Daily News, 17 July 2026