Example sentences for: flourished

How can you use “flourished” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The various forms of politically driven realism that flourished during the Depression continued to dominate American art through the end of World War II.

  • It was a bit of late Romanticism, which flourished in English literature, then in German cinema, and reached an apogee of acceptance in 1973 in a stylish volume by Angelo Maria Ripellino called, after a phrase by André Breton, Magic Prague . But the mystic interpretation is exactly what Peter Demetz, a professor of German at Yale, wishes to counter in his own Prague in Black and Gold: Scenes From the Life of a European City . Demetz's Prague is the city of the late-16 th century Emperor Rudolf II (a scientific-minded man, though he did go mad at the end) and the 19 th century logician Bernard Bolzano.

  • Fashion is as acceptable in France as any imaginative work, and criticism about it has certainly flourished there.

  • Madrid flourished in the early 1980s, as characterized by la movida, a hip cultural explosion that rejected the repression of the Franco era through acts of hedonism and creative films, music and theater.

  • Tourists in Changsha are sometimes taken to visit the local embroidery factory, where Hunan’s handicraft tradition has flourished for 2,000 years.


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