Sample Sentences for
prosaic
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    That sounded so prosaic; but to my surprise I found it true.  (source)
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    Let me be prosaic so far as facts can be.  (source)
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    'We're not dead yet,' said Julia prosaically.  (source)
    prosaically = in a matter-of-fact manner (a bland manner -- as though unconcerned)
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    It seemed sort of prosaic to be hungry after all that had passed last night.  (source)
    prosaic = ordinary (lacking anything unusual, interesting, or challenging)
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    I find myself saying briefly and prosaically that it is much more important to be oneself than anything else.  (source)
    prosaically = lacking anything unusual
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    The blotch, which until then she had regarded as the most prosaic of skin blemishes, had become an obsession.  (source)
    prosaic = lacking anything unusual or interesting
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    "Well, they will do it," said Japp prosaically.  (source)
    prosaically = in a matter-of-fact manner (lacking anything unusual, interesting, or challenging)
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    The absence of so prosaic a commodity as grapefruit juice had suddenly made real to him, for the first time, what it was that would happen to the city of New York if anything happened to the Taggart Bridge.  (source)
    prosaic = lacking anything unusual, interesting, or challenging
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    Sassburger telephoned for ice, and the bell-boy who brought it said, prosaically and unprompted, "Highball glasses or cocktail?"  (source)
    prosaically = in a matter-of-fact manner (lacking anything unusual, interesting, or challenging)
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    In the most prosaic way possible.  (source)
    prosaic = lacking anything unusual, interesting, or challenging
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    At the first moment there had arisen from his poet's head, or, simply and prosaically, from his empty stomach, a mist, a vapor, so to speak, which, spreading between objects and himself, permitted him to catch a glimpse of them only in the incoherent fog of nightmare,—in those shadows of dreams which distort every outline, agglomerating objects into unwieldy groups, dilating things into chimeras, and men into phantoms.†  (source)
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    He never left the cinema very quickly. It always took him a moment or two to return to the prosaic reality of everyday life.  (source)
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    But Martin, being Martin, walked prosaically up and down his laboratory, snarling.†  (source)
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