Example sentences for: flourishing

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

  • By the 1960s, even the memory of flourishing towns like Hurston's Eatonville had been erased, replaced by crime-ridden ghettoes that '60s radicals tried to palm off as the only legitimate black experience.

  • Only modern technology could have turned this former patch of desert into one of the world’s most flourishing metropolises.

  • These numbers reflect consensus trends--foreign films are barely alive, while independent ones are flourishing.

  • Nostalgia is rampant among public commentators today as they look for some critical juncture when U.S. democracy was flourishing more than it seems to be now, hoping to draw inspiration and lessons for what might be done to revive our apparently ailing civic life.

  • These virtues of friendship and justice require cultivation, for they contribute to the flourishing of the virtuous individual.


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