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Example sentences for: thrives

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It was not until I took a classics course in college that I was told the original reading: the worst evil of all was at the bottom--hope, which feeds men illusions, which renders them blind to reality, which thrives on lies.
Cagney's slow fade is especially surprising when you consider how much the genre he helped to invent, the gangster film, thrives.
5) Sam Donaldson, who returned to ABC's White House beat the week before the scandal, thrives out in the field, not in the studio.
There are a number of reasons for this: a nomadic office life over the last year, which left me without a reliable physical address; contributing to "Media Grok," an e-mail newsletter that thrives on Web links; and the sheer amount of time I spend staring at my laptop screen.
And while the soul of local outdoor culture still thrives at the new store, this is not necessarily a good thing.