| Doing so is a moral and civic duty and, more prosaically, an industrial and business one. |
| He ached with desire to express and could but gibber prosaically as everybody gibbered. |
| More prosaically, what are we going to do with this little basket full of mushrooms? |
| More prosaically, he was perhaps the first advertiser to use a pretty girl to advertise a whole range of products, from soap to throat pastilles. |
| More prosaically, the Kombai tribe in remote Papua New Guinea swamps hoist their dwellings as much as 30m up towering sago palms to avoid enemies and repel mosquitoes. |
| More prosaically, the preference for what is known underlies the pleasures of nostalgic reminiscence and the company of old friends. |
