How to Use thriving in a Sentence

thriving

adjective

• To have spent a week in the NICU and to now be home and thriving?
  — Selena Barrientos, Good Housekeeping, 19 Oct. 2021
• 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
• 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
• Decades ago the nearby area was home to the thriving Jim’s Steak House and other places.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland, 28 Nov. 2021
• There was a very thriving British scene in the ‘70s, of vocalists.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 13 Nov. 2021
• Now, the city is doing the same for its thriving music scene.
  — Anthony Solorzano, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2025
• 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
• 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
• The thriving city sits in the epicenter of some of the South’s best adventures.
  — Outside Online, 25 Apr. 2022
• The rec center will be paid off this year and our business parks are thriving.
  — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 21 Sep. 2021
• For one thing, street lit has become its own thriving genre.
  — Bonnie Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2023
• At the time, Portland had a thriving underworld, thanks to on-the-take cops and politicians.
  — oregonlive, 1 Apr. 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• And is that course broadly not conducive to Jews thriving?
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 11 May 2022
• 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
• And don’t sleep on the cheese, Harley-Davidson and a historic and thriving beer industry.
  — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 10 Oct. 2024
• Series features some of the finest of Cincinnati's thriving jazz scene.
  — Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 25 Apr. 2022
• The south fork of the Salmon River once contained the most thriving population of Chinook salmon in the world.
  — CBS News, 14 Aug. 2021
• Once a thriving mining town, Terlingua is frozen in time—in a good way.
  — Outside Online, 10 Aug. 2024
• Once a thriving white community, Grove Park saw white flight in the 1960s.
  — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Mar. 2021
• Even so, his grass looks like a thriving, emerald-green meadow year-round.
  — Lina Zeldovich, Washington Post, 6 July 2024
• 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
• True, Canal Street at the time was already a thriving shopping district.
  — Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 25 Jan. 2021
• Connecticut has a thriving metal scene, of which The Webster is a key part.
  — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 2 July 2024
• When your goal is basic survival, there isn’t a lot of room for learning, much less thriving.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Apr. 2022
• Naples, with a population north of two million, is a thriving and crowded city, while the twisting and often crowded drive to Sorrento can elevate your blood pressure.
  — Tom Mullen, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2025