Looking for sentences and phrases with the word prosy? Here are some examples.
Sentence Examples
With publication, anecdotes became more polished, the characters less distinctive and stereotypical, the prevailing tone patronising and prosy.
Their rhythms hover uncertainly between the ordinary Shakespearean pentameter and a fairly prosy free verse.
I cannot imagine his pupil regarding him as anything but a prosy old pedant, set over him by his father to keep him out of mischief.
Prosy and schoolroomish at times, the movie was also violent, scary, and funny, and, for all its gimmicks, it had a strong emotional pull.
Examples from Classical Literature
Fancy prosy being in love with anybody, or anybody being in love with prosy!
Sally was reserved about details, but clear about the outcome of her expedition with prosy.
Sir Dioscorides Gayler's a cousin of his, you know, and would pass on his practice to prosy on easy terms.
She got implicated in the friend's last dying splash, while prosy got nearly scot-free.
No, prosy dear, I shall call you prosy, whatever the consequences may be.
But Aunt March had not this gift, and she worried Amy very much with her rules and orders, her prim ways, and long, prosy talks.
She would get prosy by himself, and make him tell her all about it.
You open a book and try to read, but you find Shakespeare trite and commonplace, Dickens is dull and prosy, Thackeray a bore, and Carlyle too sentimental.
But all the judges are alike for that, keeping a poor shirt up sometimes until midnight, listening to cursed dull lawyers, and prosy, caviling witnesses.
His best stories, essays, and poems went begging among them, and yet, each month, he read reams of dull, prosy, inartistic stuff between all their various covers.
