How to Use prolific in a Sentence

prolific

adjective
  • How did such a prolific goal scorer fall to the the Hawks?
    Jimmy Greenfield, chicagotribune.com, 18 June 2019
  • The Cowboys had been prolific in the first quarter of the last two games.
    David Moore, Dallas News, 3 Oct. 2021
  • That stretch is among the most prolific in the world for enormous hail.
    Matthew Cappucci, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Apr. 2021
  • The half-inch blooms are round and prolific, borne atop leafy stems.
    Washington Post, 12 May 2021
  • One of the most upright, shiny and prolific weeds in lawns can be sedge.
    Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 19 June 2021
  • And harvests — in the field and from the sea — continue to be prolific.
    Steve Edwards, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Aug. 2019
  • These are two of the five most prolific three-point-shooting teams in the nation.
    Joe Juliano, Philly.com, 30 Mar. 2018
  • Stephen Greif, a prolific British actor known for his work on the stage and screen, has died.
    Los Angeles Times, 27 Dec. 2022
  • Horn, a 6-foot-4 guard, has shown to be a prolific scorer.
    James Weber, Cincinnati.com, 24 June 2019
  • And, of course, lichens are always prolific on the tundra and in black spruce forests.
    John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Sep. 2021
  • The couple have been friends of Trump for over 20 years and are among his most prolific donors.
    Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 7 Dec. 2024
  • The fourth and sixth selections have been the most prolific for state players in the first round.
    Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 26 Mar. 2020
  • All moody eyes and knowing smiles, the prolific actor is the reason to tune in.
    Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2022
  • When the Trojans play a prolific offense, Caleb will have to get them 10 TDs and hope to hang on.
    Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Sep. 2023
  • What is my gaze and my place in the world of images that is ever more prolific?
    Emiliano Granada, Variety, 27 Jan. 2022
  • But that's not all the prolific filmmaker has been up to.
    Christian Holub, EW.com, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Carden is known as one of the most prolific fundraisers in the region.
    Jason Williams, Cincinnati.com, 16 Sep. 2017
  • The Suns were very good again on Monday from long range, but not quite as prolific.
    David Brandt, Star Tribune, 22 Feb. 2021
  • Hotze is one of most prolific culture warriors on the right in Texas.
    Patrick Svitek, ExpressNews.com, 4 July 2020
  • Cabot, one of the most prolific producers in the nation’s No.
    Michael Rubinkam, The Seattle Times, 4 Feb. 2019
  • But every year seems to go like that for the prolific British author.
    Town & Country, 16 Oct. 2022
  • Kool & the Gang were prolific, and their sound evolved over a long period.
    New York Times, 4 July 2022
  • Grab your wand, don your robe and celebrate the prolific series with hits from the era.
    Anchorage Daily News, 24 May 2018
  • That is, until last summer, when the stalks were half as tall and the berries less prolific and smaller.
    oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2020
  • With the help of the prolific Liberian coffee plant, nothing seemed out of reach.
    Bronwen Everill, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2024
  • He’s one of the league’s most prolific play-action throwers.
    Childs Walker, baltimoresun.com, 24 Sep. 2021
  • And over the course of her prolific career, Walker has gone on to write over 40 genre-spanning books.
    Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 21 Dec. 2023
  • My mom’s mom was a snazzy dresser—and a prolific shopper.
    Alyssa Haak, Marie Claire, 17 Apr. 2019
  • Schiff and Porter entered the race as prolific fundraisers.
    Bridget Bowman, NBC News, 7 Apr. 2023
  • De Jong has five more starts than Pepi, and three fewer goals which would suggest that, at 34, his prolific powers are beginning to ebb.
    Greg O'Keeffe, The Athletic, 25 Nov. 2024

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