How to Use flourishing in a Sentence

flourishing

adjective
  • The emerging sun and flourishing flowers mean that spring is in full bloom at the beginning of May.
    Brenna Gauchat, The Arizona Republic, 1 May 2024
  • MassBio was founded in 1985 and represents one of the most flourishing biopharma hubs in the world.
    Jonathan Saltzman, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Rather than stopping drinking, the ban over time has led to a flourishing and dangerous bootleg market.
    Leily Nikounazar, New York Times, 14 July 2023
  • But hydrothermal vents are like the Santa Barbaras of the abyss, peaceful respites where life can be abundant and flourishing.
    Sabrina Imbler, The Atlantic, 16 Feb. 2021
  • The inability to afford homes, the time and cost of commuting, and the shortage of school and elderly care places have put flourishing cities out of reach for many working people.
    Ian Goldin, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2023
  • And, like Smart’s mural, the people running businesses that are stable and flourishing offer a net of support to the newer arrivals.
    Stefene Russell, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 Sep. 2022
  • Right now nature in Dallas is budding, blooming and flourishing, so buyers can see exactly what homes have to offer during the city’s green season.
    Allie Beth Allman & Associates, Dallas News, 20 Apr. 2023
  • These policies are not made by wise philosopher-kings seeking to create a flourishing and virtuous economy.
    Dominic Pino, National Review, 13 Mar. 2022
  • And there is a huge and flourishing genre of partly textual gaming on mobile which is very much about storytelling, using a sort of patchwork of words, animations and video clips.
    Anna Washenko, Ars Technica, 20 June 2024
  • The Taylor Swift industrial complex is alive and flourishing.
    Li Goldstein, Bon Appétit, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Between the early days of the artist-woodsman ornithologists and the death of Brasher a century and a half later, the science of ornithology spun off a vital and flourishing adjunct: birdwatching.
    Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2023
  • Research in Palau has already identified other populations of coral that are heat-resistant and flourishing.
    Victoria Sayo Turner, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 July 2023
  • Waterhouse spoke candidly to The Times about their flourishing but private relationship.
    Alyssa Bailey, ELLE, 21 Feb. 2023
  • In recent years, a backlash to digital and automated projection has created a flourishing niche market for old-fashioned film.
    Lane Brown, Vulture, 2 Mar. 2023
  • The auto parts business became Hood’s Car Care Clinic in 1980, when demand for his flourishing mechanical skills reached a point where a full transformation to an automotive repair center was required.
    Scott Talley, Freep.com, 26 June 2022
  • In the years since, Putin manipulated Georgia’s politics by proxy and diminished the country’s hopes for independence, for a flourishing civil society.
    Matthew Continetti, National Review, 29 Jan. 2022
  • Throughout history, those societies that invested in higher education were always the most flourishing and advanced societies.
    Anchorage Daily News, 3 Oct. 2020
  • Fast, reliable and inexpensive internet connectivity has fostered a flourishing tech sector.
    Renee Dudley, ProPublica, 7 Sep. 2022

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