How to Use thriving in a Sentence

thriving

adjective
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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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Once a thriving mining town, Terlingua is frozen in time—in a good way.
    — Outside Online, 10 Aug. 2024
  • Even so, his grass looks like a thriving, emerald-green meadow year-round.
    — Lina Zeldovich, Washington Post, 6 July 2024
  • 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
  • Once thriving spots, these villages, towns and cities now stand abandoned.
    — Joe Minihane, CNN, 9 Feb. 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
  • The Kern River was once a thriving oasis for migrating birds and tule elk.
    — Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2021
  • Today, the area is still a bustling and thriving community.
    — Ronny Maye, Essence, 30 Sep. 2023
  • The find offers new hope that scientists will discover more thriving reefs, with 80% of the world’s seabed left to map.
    — Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Mar. 2022
  • 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 second tells the story of the thriving Black communities.
    — Sofia Krusmark, The Arizona Republic, 15 Mar. 2022
  • Around the country, other thriving middle schools have faced the same pressure.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Apr. 2022
  • My vision for downtown is safe, clean, and will create thriving neighborhoods.
    — Mark Farrell, TIME, 14 Oct. 2024

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