How to Use thriving in a Sentence
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To have spent a week in the NICU and to now be home and thriving?
—Selena Barrientos, Good Housekeeping, 19 Oct. 2021
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Mérida, named for the town in Spain, was built on the site of a thriving Mayan city.
—Lilit Marcus, CNN, 8 Feb. 2023
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Killing it at work is great and thriving in love is too.
—Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 27 Dec. 2022
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Into the 1980s, the plaza was part of a thriving commercial hub.
—Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 26 Aug. 2022
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There’s so many of us, and so many of us are still alive and thriving and working in our craft.
—Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 28 June 2024
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Decades ago the nearby area was home to the thriving Jim’s Steak House and other places.
—Marc Bona, cleveland, 28 Nov. 2021
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There was a very thriving British scene in the ‘70s, of vocalists.
—Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 13 Nov. 2021
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Now, the city is doing the same for its thriving music scene.
—Anthony Solorzano, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2025
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For here was a man who lived for more than thriving as a critic.
—Reginald Dwayne Betts Kiese Makeba Laymon Carina Del Valle Schorske Dessa Irina Aleksander Sam Dolnick Mark Binelli Maggie Jones Rob Hoerburger Jamie Lauren Keiles Devin Gordon Jazmine Hughes Jenna Wortham Jade Chang Taffy Brodesser-Akner Kaitlyn Greenidge Rowan Ricardo Phillips Michael Paterniti Wesley Morris Ismail Muhammad Anthony Giardina, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2020
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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
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The case underscores the role that the U.S.-Mexico border plays in the thriving black market for wildlife.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Mar. 2022
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The thriving city sits in the epicenter of some of the South’s best adventures.
—Outside Online, 25 Apr. 2022
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The rec center will be paid off this year and our business parks are thriving.
—Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 21 Sep. 2021
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For one thing, street lit has become its own thriving genre.
—Bonnie Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2023
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At the time, Portland had a thriving underworld, thanks to on-the-take cops and politicians.
—oregonlive, 1 Apr. 2021
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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
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But Steele knew it well because railroad tracks cut through the site of what had once been a thriving mill town.
—oregonlive, 16 Aug. 2021
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She’s now nearly 11 months old and thriving, and consumes 20 ounces of breast milk each day.
—Amy Joyce, Washington Post, 19 May 2022
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And is that course broadly not conducive to Jews thriving?
—Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 11 May 2022
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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
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And don’t sleep on the cheese, Harley-Davidson and a historic and thriving beer industry.
—Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 10 Oct. 2024
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Series features some of the finest of Cincinnati's thriving jazz scene.
—Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 25 Apr. 2022
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The south fork of the Salmon River once contained the most thriving population of Chinook salmon in the world.
—CBS News, 14 Aug. 2021
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Once a thriving mining town, Terlingua is frozen in time—in a good way.
—Outside Online, 10 Aug. 2024
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Once a thriving white community, Grove Park saw white flight in the 1960s.
—Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Mar. 2021
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Even so, his grass looks like a thriving, emerald-green meadow year-round.
—Lina Zeldovich, Washington Post, 6 July 2024
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In the end the new mayor and the business community want the same thing: a city that’s thriving, and welcoming to all.
—BostonGlobe.com, 7 Nov. 2021
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True, Canal Street at the time was already a thriving shopping district.
—Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 25 Jan. 2021
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Samara is 8 pounds, 13 years old, and takes hyperthyroid medication to keep her healthy and thriving.
—Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 5 Apr. 2025
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Its thriving cultural scene, buzzing nightlife, and beautiful beaches draw millions of tourists every year.
—Lisa A. Beach, Southern Living, 30 Mar. 2025
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