Sample Sentences for
prolific
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    "Marvelous painter. Very prolific. And this is a particularly beautiful example," he said, with all a collector's pride.  (source)
    prolific = producing abundantly (creating a lot of paintings)
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    I'm beginning to see that crops on Mars are extremely prolific, thanks to the billions of dollars' worth of life support equipment around me.  (source)
    prolific = produce abundantly
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    My mother went through the most prolific period in her life while I was recovering.  (source)
    prolific = productive
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    I said that I wasn't terribly prolific.  (source)
    prolific = productive (in his writing)
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    Unseasonably cold weather, meanwhile, makes people cheat prolifically; so do heavy rain and wind.†  (source)
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    There the house was with the nine windows, the unprolific vine.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unprolific means not and reverses the meaning of prolific. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    And no one could accuse him of not being prolific in his chosen metier.  (source)
    prolific = highly productive (creating abundantly)
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    They grow prolifically and have a reasonable caloric content (770 calories per kilogram).  (source)
    prolifically = abundantly
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    One of the faculty wives—one especially prolific with progeny, and one whose maternal girth was more substantial than well coordinated—slipped under the Volkswagen as it was being returned to its wheels; although she was not hurt, she was wedged quite securely under the stubborn automobile.†  (source)
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    Religious fanaticism I find to be fully as prolific an exciting cause of insanity as intemperance — but I am inclined to believe that neither religion nor intemperance will induce insanity in a truly sound mind — I think there is always a predisposing cause which renders the individual liable to the malady, when exposed to any disturbing agency, whether mental or physical.†  (source)
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    They were now illuminated by the morning radiance of a young child's disposition, but, later in the day of earthly existence, might be prolific of the storm and whirlwind.†  (source)
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    The foolhardiness or ignorance of her officers was a prolific theme for comment whilst she remained in sight, and efforts were made to signal her to reduce sail in the face of her danger.†  (source)
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    Perry was not a gifted liar, or a prolific one; however, once he had told a fiction he usually stuck by it.†  (source)
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