Example sentences for: prosperous

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

  • In the stormy 15th and 16th centuries, Lucca’s prosperous silk merchants preserved the peace by intercepting enemy armies and paying them to bypass the town.

  • Also, "Harlem's Next Renaissance" predicts an economic comeback for the New York neighborhood: Retailers, who have saturated the suburbs, are rushing to Harlem, which is huge (520,000 people), underserved, and surprisingly prosperous.

  • Re-conquered by King Alfonso X in 1264, it became one of the most prosperous towns in Andalucía after the discovery of the Americas and the reunification of Spain in 1492.

  • Why can't Europe, now prosperous, defend itself?

  • This Sinatra is a Sinatra for the sleek, prosperous, cigar-swilling, martini-puffing '90s, a tonic for political correctness.


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