How to Use thriving in a Sentence

thriving

adjective

• Mérida, named for the town in Spain, was built on the site of a thriving Mayan city.
  — Lilit Marcus, CNN, 8 Feb. 2023
• Killing it at work is great and thriving in love is too.
  — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 27 Dec. 2022
• Into the 1980s, the plaza was part of a thriving commercial hub.
  — Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 26 Aug. 2022
• There’s so many of us, and so many of us are still alive and thriving and working in our craft.
  — Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 28 June 2024
• That is, before the events of the Dance of the Dragons, which was the civil war that crippled the once thriving dynasty.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 14 July 2022
• The case underscores the role that the U.S.-Mexico border plays in the thriving black market for wildlife.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Mar. 2022
• The thriving city sits in the epicenter of some of the South’s best adventures.
  — Outside Online, 25 Apr. 2022
• For one thing, street lit has become its own thriving genre.
  — Bonnie Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2023
• His goal is to teach his employees the tricks of the trade while setting them up for a stable and thriving life.
  — AZCentral.com, 6 Feb. 2023
• She’s now nearly 11 months old and thriving, and consumes 20 ounces of breast milk each day.
  — Amy Joyce, Washington Post, 19 May 2022
• And is that course broadly not conducive to Jews thriving?
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 11 May 2022
• The lack of access has led to a thriving smuggling network across both the Houthi- and Saudi-held areas.
  — Peter Aitken, Fox News, 14 Oct. 2022
• And don’t sleep on the cheese, Harley-Davidson and a historic and thriving beer industry.
  — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 10 Oct. 2024
• Series features some of the finest of Cincinnati's thriving jazz scene.
  — Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 25 Apr. 2022
• Once a thriving mining town, Terlingua is frozen in time—in a good way.
  — Outside Online, 10 Aug. 2024
• Even so, his grass looks like a thriving, emerald-green meadow year-round.
  — Lina Zeldovich, Washington Post, 6 July 2024
• Connecticut has a thriving metal scene, of which The Webster is a key part.
  — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 2 July 2024
• When your goal is basic survival, there isn’t a lot of room for learning, much less thriving.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Apr. 2022
• Once thriving spots, these villages, towns and cities now stand abandoned.
  — Joe Minihane, CNN, 9 Feb. 2022
• The year gold was discovered at Sutter’s Mill, a thriving vineyard in L.A. could bring as much as $1,000 an acre.
  — Patt Morrisoncolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2022
• And then there's the thriving anti-vaccine groups that the president himself called out last year.
  — NBC News, 1 Jan. 2023
• The Kern River was once a thriving oasis for migrating birds and tule elk.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2021
• Today, the area is still a bustling and thriving community.
  — Ronny Maye, Essence, 30 Sep. 2023
• The find offers new hope that scientists will discover more thriving reefs, with 80% of the world’s seabed left to map.
  — Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Mar. 2022
• Add race to the equation, and even the idea of equity has little chance of surviving–much less thriving.
  — Sheila Callaham, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2023
• The region of Siberia Colossal had in mind, Sakha, has a thriving underground trade in mammoth tusks.
  — Andy Lamey, The New Republic, 15 Dec. 2022
• The second tells the story of the thriving Black communities.
  — Sofia Krusmark, The Arizona Republic, 15 Mar. 2022
• Around the country, other thriving middle schools have faced the same pressure.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Apr. 2022
• The aftermath was as if Armageddon struck a thriving American city in the modern era of the 90s.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 24 Aug. 2022
• Adaptability, patience and resourcefulness are key to surviving — and thriving — in both the desert and in commercial real estate.
  — Allen Buchanan, Orange County Register, 28 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024