And this time of year is best for a haunting, as even the most prosaic things cast the most disquieting shadows.

For one, they are hired to find out prosaic things like a company's marketing plan, the state of its R. and D. or a factory's production capacity.

Snow blindness would be such a prosaic thing.

But nobody had been interested in inert and prosaic things like crowbars.

Now the thing that conquered in Germany was about the most prosaic thing of which the world ever grew weary.

What a prosaic thing to say about what was perhaps the most important moment in the entire history of mankind.

Blossoms are pretty things, sweet to the senses, but they depend on such prosaic things like roots and leaves and stems.

I would have the privilege of introducing her to things prosaic to me but new and foreign to her.

They both affected connoisseurship regarding prosaic things such as muffins, hamburgers, and iced tea.

The backyard, shrouded in shadows, was beautiful, the white moonlight clothing ugly prosaic things with a milky vapour.