How to Use prosaic in a Sentence

prosaic

adjective

• He has a prosaic writing style.
• She believes the noises are made by ghosts, but I think there's a more prosaic explanation.
• Some researchers think the pulse has a kind of prosaic cause.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 21 Feb. 2022
• Smart flush But the more promising might also be the more prosaic.
  — Scott Canon, kansascity, 22 July 2017
• For the non-tourist, even the Statue of Liberty may come to seem prosaic.
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 15 Sep. 2017
• Usurpation abounds, at home and abroad, and seems never to be walled in by anything as prosaic as the law.
  — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 20 July 2017
• There are prosaic details in it that make the story seem richer as a song.
  — William Goodman, Billboard, 30 Jan. 2018
• There are, of course, more prosaic reasons for Orion to come back.
  — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 29 Nov. 2022
• The gain in prosaic realism comes at a loss in fairy tale magic.
  — Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2022
• Many of the stories of these soon-to-be merchant princes are prosaic, but a few are as wild and woolly as the Gold Rush itself.
  — Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Sep. 2022
• Even the most prosaic items were fair game for financing.
  — Mac Schwerin, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2023
• The book is filled with prosaic scenes of work and ritual, solitary faces and people in crowds.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Dec. 2022
• More often, though, the goals scored by cup-winning sides are prosaic.
  — Jody Rosen, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2022
• In some ways, the event looks like a prosaic stellar explosion.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 8 Nov. 2017
• That’s a fascinating way to think about what is, in prosaic terms, the act of hanging pictures on a wall.
  — Steve Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 24 July 2019
• The pieces don’t always mesh, and there are patchy and prosaic moments, but this is still Levinson’s strongest work in years.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 14 Sep. 2021
• The poignancy comes as a surprise because most of the preceding scenes are slack and prosaic.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2022
• At the same time, a big incentive for his clients is a more prosaic concern: cutting costs.
  — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 28 Aug. 2023
• That, perhaps, is a prosaic way to describe a sinkhole.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 31 July 2019
• The writing, it must be said, settles for more prosaic achievements.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 17 Oct. 2019
• Three months later, amid the prosaic demands of raising a child, the outbreak of the coronavirus led to statewide lockdowns in Texas.
  — Popular Science, 24 Aug. 2020
• The epic begins and ends with a prosaic task: A child takes, and then returns, an elderly woman’s big white dog.
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 15 Oct. 2021
• But Ulbricht’s fatal flaw would prove to be more prosaic.
  — Nick Bilton, The Hive, 19 June 2017
• Palm’s consumer budget line, the Zire series, was a bit less prosaic.
  — Cameron Kaiser, Ars Technica, 25 Apr. 2024
• Dedmon is the more prosaic variety, though useful all the same.
  — Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 24 June 2019
• The state housing agency says its denial was based on a much more prosaic concern.
  — John Byrne, chicagotribune.com, 17 May 2018
• That’s in addition to the more prosaic details that could lure a company.
  — Katherine Peralta and Ely Portillo, charlotteobserver, 19 Oct. 2017
• Just south of Ford Road sits a prosaic little strip mall home to a burger joint, a meat market, a tailor and one of the best places in Michigan to get breakfast.
  — Mark Kurlyandchik, Detroit Free Press, 4 Dec. 2019
• While that sounds fairly prosaic, seeing it in action will blow you away.
  — Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 26 Mar. 2010
• This includes trips to Paris, Usher concerts, and prosaic outings to the grocery store, photographers be damned.
  — Ivana Rihter, Vogue, 3 May 2024

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024