How to Use prosperity in a Sentence

prosperity

noun
  • The fruit which brought the most prosperity to Pearland was not the pear.
    Jaimy Jones, Houston Chronicle, 19 June 2018
  • Five years after the end of World War I, peace and prosperity ruled the land.
    Andrew Wolfson, The Courier-Journal, 30 June 2023
  • Yes there was change, progress, prosperity, and a lot of it.
    Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2018
  • Oil gushing from the ground and all of that still calls to mind prosperity.
    How To Save A Country, The New Republic, 3 Nov. 2022
  • First, the two-car garage was the sign of middle class prosperity.
    Richard A. Marini, San Antonio Express-News, 12 June 2018
  • Let the colors of Holi bring joy and prosperity to your homes and lives.
    Ysolt Usigan, Woman's Day, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Wishing you and yours health and prosperity in the new year.
    Erin Cavoto, Country Living, 6 Nov. 2020
  • Plus a double rainbow to show a sign of prosperity and all the life that is to come.
    Bailey Richards, Peoplemag, 8 Jan. 2024
  • But the prosperity brought by tourism has not extended to the hill farms.
    Kieran Dodds, Smithsonian, 20 Apr. 2018
  • The structures are a relic of a past era of prosperity for the small boomtown.
    Claire Rafford, The Indianapolis Star, 22 Aug. 2022
  • Hard work alone is no longer a sure route to prosperity.
    The Economist, 17 Feb. 2018
  • The remainder of the 1930s tracked a rising graph of prosperity that, during the war years, shot off the charts.
    Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Mar. 2023
  • If You Get Lost isn’t just that Tyler is cozy in his prosperity.
    Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 25 June 2021
  • What is the prosperity gospel, and does Osteen preach it?
    Katherine Blunt, Houston Chronicle, 30 May 2018
  • And like any good quasi-prosperity gospel, a sweeper has to get her mind right.
    Katherine Lucky, The New Republic, 14 May 2021
  • Both programs want the game itself to serve as the gateway to a new decade of prosperity.
    Zach Osterman, Indianapolis Star, 1 Jan. 2020
  • Over the long run, that approach has led to prosperity.
    New York Times, 6 May 2022
  • All of those things need to be looked at to ensure freedom and prosperity.
    Annie Geng, The New Republic, 2 Sep. 2021
  • These kind of closing are viewed as a one-off exception to the rule of prosperity.
    Patrick Sisson, Curbed, 29 Nov. 2018
  • One more pitch, one more strike, one more for prosperity.
    Paul Johnson, Elgin Courier-News, 4 June 2019
  • A place where the law is a tool of control, rather than a foundation for prosperity.
    Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 6 Mar. 2017
  • And the engines of our prosperity would be left untouched.
    The Editors, National Review, 13 Aug. 2021
  • But the prosperity of a nation is the bedrock of any plan for justice and equality.
    Stacy Meichtry, WSJ, 9 July 2018
  • Other fruit is lucky because of its name—the word for pomelo sounds like the one for prosperity.
    Harper's BAZAAR, 30 Sep. 2019
  • One is our mission, which is to power prosperity around the world.
    Karen Walker, Forbes, 15 June 2022
  • To a boy born and raised in Galicia, France was a paradise of liberty and prosperity, but the idyll was short-lived.
    Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2023
  • The lion dance is performed to bring good luck and prosperity.
    Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 20 Jan. 2023
  • The man who would set fire to the foundations of our peace and prosperity resides within them.
    Josh Gohlke, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 June 2018
  • But in the years between the wars, prosperity gave reformers a glimmer of hope.
    Nancy Hass, New York Times, 13 Nov. 2020
  • Who is working to make sure that all people in this country can get on a path to prosperity.
    Owen Hayes, NBC News, 16 Aug. 2023

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