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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    had been fool enough to suppose that the cleverest woman in Europe would settle down to the prosaic bonds of English matrimony.  (source)
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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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    '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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    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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    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 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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    "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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    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)
    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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    Francie thought her diary would be like that, but excepting for some romantic observations on Harold Clarence, actor, the entries were prosaic.  (source)
    prosaic = lacking anything unusual or interesting
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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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