FLOURISHING in a Sentence

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95 example sentences for FLOURISHING, such as:

1. Bill signed on the bottom line with a flourish.
2. The economy is booming and small businesses are flourishing.
3. No new business can flourish in the present economic climate.
4. Unfettered by the bounds of reality, my imagination flourished.
5. Few businesses are flourishing in the present economic climate.

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 Meanings and Examples of FLOURISHING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
flourish
 v.  grow or develop successfully; decorate with ornaments
Classic Sentence: (80 in 6 pages)
1  The Fontaines had fared best of any, thanks to Sally's hard ride, but it was flourishing only by comparison with the desperate situation of the other neighbors.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
2  And so saying the lighted tomahawk began flourishing about me in the dark.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
3  They owned a flourishing grocery business in a thickly populated suburb of Memphis, and a white man named Barrett had one on the opposite corner.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In V
4  The warriors drew their knives, and flourishing them, they arranged themselves in two lines, forming a lane that extended from the war-party to the lodges.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 23
5  Of two brothers, very similar in temperament and character, one had settled on a flourishing farm in Vermont, and the other became an opulent planter in Louisiana.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
6  But the action of the woman had been seen by the driver, across the field; and, flourishing his whip, he came up to her.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
7  Evidently the Chichikovian finances were not in the most flourishing of conditions.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I
8  Nesvitski, moving his moist lips as he chewed something, and flourishing his arm, called him to enter.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII
9  Two soldiers held him while two others were flourishing their switches and striking him regularly on his bare back.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XV
10  The tall lad was standing in front, flourishing his arm and saying something with a stern look.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXV
11  Petya clenched his teeth and looked around, throwing back his head and flourishing his arms.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER VII
12  One of his most intimate friends was a merchant who, from a flourishing state, fell, through numerous mischances, into poverty.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
13  I admire them much more if they are tall, straight, and flourishing.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 18
14  Both flourishing thankye," said Wemmick, "and particularly the Aged.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXII
15  But Levin saw that he simply did so from a feeling of propriety, and that his farm was in a flourishing condition.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 25
Example Sentence:
1  There's a flourishing trade in second-hand video machines.
2  Few businesses are flourishing in the present economic climate.
3  The economy is booming and small businesses are flourishing.
4  They had to remain clear of the flourishing streets until the peak hour was over.
5  In cities people talked about science, but feudalism flourished on the land.
6  Art and literature flourished and this set the pattern for the whole of Europe.
7  Unfettered by the bounds of reality, my imagination flourished.
8  In cities people talked about science and democracy, but feudalism flourished on the land.
9  The history of the field is littered with the carcasses of ventures that flourished spectacularly before either crashing to oblivion (SixDegrees, MySpace) or finding a niche in the ecosystem (LinkedIn).
10  Bill signed on the bottom line with a flourish.
11  No new business can flourish in the present economic climate.
12  They have created an environment in which productivity should flourish.
13  The season ended with a flourish for Owen, when he scored in the final minute of the match.
14  Upsets may occur, even painful misunderstandings and separations, yet the essential love remains, and might again flourish, more temperately.
15  He finished with a flourish by scoring a career-high 30 points in the loss to Virginia Commonwealth.