How to Use thriving in a Sentence

thriving

adjective

• Mérida, named for the town in Spain, was built on the site of a thriving Mayan city.
  — Lilit Marcus, CNN, 8 Feb. 2023
• Killing it at work is great and thriving in love is too.
  — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 27 Dec. 2022
• Into the 1980s, the plaza was part of a thriving commercial hub.
  — Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 26 Aug. 2022
• That is, before the events of the Dance of the Dragons, which was the civil war that crippled the once thriving dynasty.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 14 July 2022
• For one thing, street lit has become its own thriving genre.
  — Bonnie Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2023
• His goal is to teach his employees the tricks of the trade while setting them up for a stable and thriving life.
  — AZCentral.com, 6 Feb. 2023
• The lack of access has led to a thriving smuggling network across both the Houthi- and Saudi-held areas.
  — Peter Aitken, Fox News, 14 Oct. 2022
• The year gold was discovered at Sutter’s Mill, a thriving vineyard in L.A. could bring as much as $1,000 an acre.
  — Patt Morrisoncolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2022
• And then there's the thriving anti-vaccine groups that the president himself called out last year.
  — NBC News, 1 Jan. 2023
• Today, the area is still a bustling and thriving community.
  — Ronny Maye, Essence, 30 Sep. 2023
• Add race to the equation, and even the idea of equity has little chance of surviving–much less thriving.
  — Sheila Callaham, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2023
• The region of Siberia Colossal had in mind, Sakha, has a thriving underground trade in mammoth tusks.
  — Andy Lamey, The New Republic, 15 Dec. 2022
• The aftermath was as if Armageddon struck a thriving American city in the modern era of the 90s.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 24 Aug. 2022
• James said her goal is to increase awareness of how people who have had heart surgeries can live full and thriving lives.
  — Sarah Lapidus, AZCentral.com, 19 Mar. 2023
• In Montrose, the restaurant is close to the Texas Medical Center, and in the middle of a thriving restaurant-rich district.
  — Emma Balter, Chron, 16 Nov. 2022
• Over the last few decades, growth and development was so rich in Plano, the city became the template for a thriving suburban utopia.
  — Myah Taylor, Dallas News, 4 Apr. 2023
• Another shares a photo of the thriving tomato plants in their garden.
  — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 20 July 2022
• Gulf Beaches Mérida may be a thriving, cosmopolitan city, but one of my favorite things to do here is escape the pavement and hit the beach.
  — Meagan Drillinger, Travel + Leisure, 20 Feb. 2024
• Watch to find out what is happening in all four of these thriving communities.
  — Shirley MacFarland, cleveland, 9 Dec. 2022
• But also points to Washington, D.C., as having a thriving street.
  — Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 15 Nov. 2022
• But no one in the thriving city is under any illusions that Putin will spare it from further destruction.
  — Michael Bociurkiw, CNN, 1 Nov. 2022
• That thriving image comes through at Nazareth, which has two locations in Louisville and 375 employees.
  — Sarah Ladd, The Courier-Journal, 28 Oct. 2022
• This is why people get married and have kids: to create their own thriving microcosms of sycophants.
  — Heather Havrilesky, New York Times, 17 Dec. 2022
• The ancient site of Maresha, now part of a national park in Israel, was once a thriving city with a subterranean secret.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Aug. 2022
• More than 1,000 homes were burned, hundreds more were looted and destroyed and a thriving business district known as Black Wall Street was destroyed.
  — Ken Miller, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Nov. 2022
• When a gang of fearless kids start terrorizing the locals, the balance of his thriving business and of the whole neighborhood is disturbed.
  — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 16 Nov. 2022
• This industrial city has one of Europe's most thriving food scenes.
  — Joe Minihane, CNN, 8 Nov. 2022
• More than 1,000 homes were burned, hundreds more were looted, and a thriving business district known as Black Wall Street was destroyed in the racist violence.
  — CBS News, 12 Nov. 2022
• Our age is one, moreover, that would have been unimaginable for the Jews of ancient Persia, save for the coming of the Messiah—a world in which there is a thriving and strong state of Israel.
  — David Wolpe, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2023
• The property was home to a thriving grain and flour plant that had thousands of employees at its peak in the 1950s before a significant decline.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 14 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024