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Example sentences for "thriving"

Lexicographically close words:
thriue; thrive; thrived; thriven; thrives; thro; throat; throate; throated; throats
  1. The Ṛigvēdic priests as yet do not take much interest in him, and for the most part they leave him to their somewhat despised kinsmen the Atharvans, who do a thriving trade in hymns and spells to secure the common folk against his wrath.

  2. The house belonged to a Prussian subject of the name of Probsfeld, a terribly self-opinionated North German, with all the bumptious proclivities of that thriving nation most fully developed.

  3. The boats from the various landing-places had already come up, and these were doing a thriving trade by taking the frightened people, with what goods they carried, to lighters and ships moored in the river.

  4. I have hurried on the house as fast as possible, and as no others in my business have yet opened, I look to do a thriving trade at once.

  5. In the grounds of Coleorton these verses are engraved on a stone, placed near the tree, which was thriving and spreading when I saw it in the summer of 1841.

  6. From Cramant the road runs direct to Avize, a large thriving village, lying at the foot of vineyard slopes, where numerous champagne firms have established themselves.

  7. The few thriving vineyards of Sillery cover a gentle eminence which rises out of the plain, and present on the one side an eastern and on the other a western aspect.

  8. The branches form nearly the same angle with the trunk as those of the oak; though in thriving trees the angle is somewhat more acute.

  9. It delights in a rich, loamy soil, thriving best in an open situation, and bears transplantation well.

  10. A few words on the excellent system, which bids fair to establish in this colony a thriving and loyal peasant proprietary.

  11. Central Valley, a noted summer resort, is the most thriving and populous village in the town, on the Newburgh branch of the Erie railroad.

  12. In 1834 a handsomely printed weekly appeared in the thriving locality of Brookfield or Slate Hill, known as the Republican Sentinel, or "the Farmers' Protests Against Political Speculation and Dictation.

  13. Slate Hill in that day was a thriving settlement, and doubtless would have continued to grow had not the Erie railroad come to Goshen in 1842 and to Middletown two or three years later.

  14. This is located near the Shawangunk River, in the northern part of the town, near the Ulster County line, and it is a thriving business village, the most important in the town.

  15. Many changes have to be recorded in the thriving village of Turner, in the eastern part of the town of Monroe.

  16. The few rambling houses that constituted the little village of a few years ago have given way to modern dwellings and business places, constituting a thriving village of some eight hundred people, all busy and prosperous.

  17. Walden is the most thriving and important village.

  18. When the seeds are come up, and the young plants have struck out five or six leaves, the four most thriving plants are pitched upon, and the others plucked up to prevent their starving each other, when too numerous.

  19. The church debt was revived in the following year, and now there isn't a more thriving church debt anywhere in the country.

  20. He has quite a thriving little cemetery filled with people who have succeeded in cording up enough of his change of scene and rest to last them through all eternity.

  21. Now the tables are turned, and the fact that Holland is situated between two countries whose thriving industries demand a greater number of workers every year will yet bring serious trouble and loss to Dutch agriculture.

  22. They are a thriving race, and it must also be noted to their credit that they are well behaved, and not given to quarrels.

  23. It's a thriving trade," said Bob, as he emptied his hatful of provisions on the grass by Libbie's side.

  24. Pearson, across the bay, is a thriving community, principally settled with intelligent Swedes, who have spared no time to make their terra firma attractive.

  25. Mertonville was a thriving place, calling itself a town, and ambitious of some day becoming a city.

  26. If Belfast were not the busiest and most thriving city in Ireland, it would still be well worth a visit for the picturesque charms of its situation and of the scenery which surrounds it.

  27. In places waste and fallen twenty years ago brisk and smiling villages have sprung up along lines of communication established to carry on the business of thriving factories.

  28. A few miles above her levee were the falls of St. Anthony and a thriving little town called Minneapolis--of which very much more in a moment.

  29. Hearing that Jacksonville, Illinois, was a thriving settlement, he resolved to try his luck in this quarter.

  30. This sarcastic comment is at least good evidence that the office was doing a thriving business.

  31. Unscrupulous vendors of the fraudulent articles used to seek out a thriving young Bryony plant, and to open the earth round it.

  32. The Gorse is rare in Scotland, thriving best in our cool humid climate.

  33. And that first of virtuous men, Kanwa, caused all the rites of religion to be performed in respect of that intelligent child thriving day by day.

  34. Thriving on human flesh, that wretched Rakshasa endued with great strength ruleth this country.


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thriving" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abundance; abundant; balmy; booming; bountiful; budding; bursting; clear; copious; creation; crescent; developed; ease; exuberant; fair; fat; fecund; fertile; flourishing; flowering; fruitful; generous; going; golden; growing; grown; halcyon; healthy; lush; luxuriant; mature; overgrown; palmy; piping; plentiful; pregnant; prodigal; productive; profuse; prolific; prosperity; prosperous; rich; roaring; robust; rosy; seminal; sleek; strong; successful; superabundant; swarming; teeming; thrifty; thriving; vigorous