Example sentences for: flourished

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

  • 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.

  • Clearly, this rosily checkered past was soon to be replaced, chiefly, it seems, as Judeo-Christian-Islamic-Confucian-Buddhist cultures flourished.

  • These arguments draw on an interpretation of the famine that has flourished since the event itself.

  • The overseas empire expanded in the East and West Indies, and arts and letters flourished in this age of enlightenment.

  • Theater and music flourished.


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