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 face of prosperous postwar Germany, retribution is a joke.

  • Portalegre is the prosperous, no-nonsense capital of the northern Alentejo, located near the hills and neolithic monuments of the Serra de São Mamede, 59 km (36 miles) north of Estremoz.

  • Son of a prosperous lawyer in Troy, New York, Hall completed his studies in engineering at Rensselaer in 1842 and was about to graduate a second time--from Harvard College in 1846--when his father sent him on an errand.

  • Hemingway’s favorite old hangout, the romantically overgrown island of Torcello, beyond Burano, is one of the lagoon’s oldest inhabited spots, very prosperous until emptied by a malaria epidemic.

  • The city’s most prosperous and glorious era was between the years 960 and 1127, when it was the Eastern Capital of the Northern Song Dynasty.


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