How to Use prosper in a Sentence

prosper

verb

• No crop can prosper in this heat.
• He hopes his business will prosper.
• She prospered as a real estate agent.
• On the whole, though, Joseph says Dayton has prospered by reaching out to immigrants rather than turning them away.
  — Scott Horsley, NPR, 20 Sep. 2024
• There's plenty of opportunity for both programs to prosper.
  — Jeff Strickler, Star Tribune, 4 Sep. 2020
• Their hopes lie with a safe environment, opportunity to prosper and fair competition.
  — Star Tribune, 28 Aug. 2020
• Bunnahabhain prospered during the late 19th and early 20th centuries whisky boom.
  — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
• But even through this, Kool & The Gang continued to prosper deep into the decade, with a combination of funk floor-fillers and crossover-friendly love songs.
  — Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 10 Sep. 2020
• And also the four children who are being drilled, not just to prosper, but to soar, are partly based on stories of Laura's youth and how her and her siblings were really thrown at gymnastics.
  — Belinda Luscombe, TIME, 8 Oct. 2024
• The warehouse and distribution building sector has continued to prosper during the pandemic as demand for e-commerce and consumer products has grown.
  — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 23 Sep. 2020
• In the pandemic economy, few stories are more intriguing than those about nimble players in industries pounded by the pandemic that are laying plans to prosper from the carnage.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 2 Aug. 2020
• Keep God first in your life and you’re bound to prosper.
  — Good Housekeeping, 2 May 2023
• But even while the colony prospered, tough times weren’t far off.
  — John Last, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Nov. 2023
• It’s where the wealthy go to abide and prosper in their mansions.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 May 2021
• This is also the best way to let people prosper across the state.
  — Vance Ginn, National Review, 22 Dec. 2023
• The city prospered as the Navy and shipbuilders moved in after World War I.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Oct. 2023
• That, in turn, allows snails, which the crabs like to consume, to prosper.
  — Dino Grandoni and Melina Mara, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Sep. 2023
• There is a desire to help, to give to those in need, and see others prosper.
  — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 24 Jan. 2023
• In normal years, the plants prosper because the deer do not eat them.
  — Calvin Finch, San Antonio Express-News, 11 June 2021
• Without a doubt this club would still like to prosper in the running game.
  — Tim Cowlishaw, Dallas News, 27 Aug. 2021
• In a market this sensitive to price, the Eas-E may prosper where the Nano could not.
  — Niharika Sharma, Quartz, 17 Nov. 2022
• Jeremiah like you and me sometimes will cry out to God and say why do the wicked seem to prosper?
  — The Rev. Mike Taylor, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 26 Dec. 2020
• But can the franchise once again live long and prosper as a film series, too?
  — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 16 Feb. 2022
• All of them should have a place in America if the country wants to grow and prosper.
  — Andy J. Semotiuk, Forbes, 10 May 2021
• Who lives, who dies; who suffers, who prospers: The world is a riddle.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2023
• Shame on Mom and Dad, a shame for the kid doing her or his best to prosper at and enjoy the sport being played.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Aug. 2022
• Read How to prosper in a financial world that’s rigged against you.
  — Alex Wood, Forbes, 1 Apr. 2023
• Still, the resort at Bruce’s Beach appeared to prosper.
  — New York Times, 11 Mar. 2021
• Founded in the 1860s as a railway hub, the city prospered during the silver and gold rushes.
  — Ken Belson, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2024
• Any coexistence would be uneasy, built not primarily on trust but on credible threats and assurances—deterrence paired with steps toward a modus vivendi that both countries and peoples could live with and prosper within.
  — Jessica Chen Weiss, Foreign Affairs, 16 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024