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Six example sentences with prosaic, each labelled with its topic.
The guidebook promised romance, but the harbor turned out to be prosaic: cranes, gravel barges, and a closed cafe.
Travel
The reason for the crash was prosaic: someone unplugged the backup drive to charge a phone overnight.
Technology
Behind the grand theory sits a prosaic truth: most households decide by copying whatever their neighbors did last year.
Economics
The new library is prosaic, a beige box with punched windows that could pass for a tax office.
Architecture
Critics found the sequel prosaic, its sentences plain and flat where the first novel had sung.
Literature
Wittgenstein's examples are deliberately prosaic, all builders and slabs, so no reader mistakes the argument for poetry.
Philosophy
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