PROSPERITY in a Sentence

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144 example sentences for PROSPERITY, such as:

1. In time of prosperity, friends will be plenty.
2. The growth of tourism brought prosperity to the island.
3. On the other hand, no prosperity ever made them arrogant.
4. He wished the young couple a life of happiness and prosperity.
5. You have only to look around to see the prosperity of the district.

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 Meanings and Examples of PROSPERITY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
prosperity
 n.  good fortune; financial success; physical well-being
Classic Sentence: (116 in 8 pages)
1  And, quickening all of the affairs of the section, was the high tide of prosperity then rolling over the South.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  It seemed even sadder, in retrospect, beside the bustle and prosperity of Atlanta.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVII
3  Behind them and mixed with them, the houses, meek cottages or large, comfortable, soundly uninteresting symbols of prosperity.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
4  Smiling as changelessly as an ivory figurine she sat quiescent, avoiding thought, glancing about the living-room and hall, noting their betrayal of unimaginative commercial prosperity.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
5  Mysteriously aching, nebulously sad, she slipped away, half-convinced but only half-convinced that it was horrible and unnatural, this postponement of release of mother-affection, this sacrifice to her opinionation and to his cautious desire for prosperity.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
6  He refused to wear soft hats; cleaved to a hard derby, as a symbol of virility and prosperity; and sometimes he forgot to take it off in the house.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
7  Early in April the city elections were due, and that meant prosperity for all the powers of graft.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 25
8  Best of all, the famous and eloquent Senator Spareshanks, presidential candidate, rode out in an automobile to discuss the sacred privileges of American citizenship, and protection and prosperity for the American workingman.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 25
9  Going to live at Baltimore laid the foundation, and opened the gateway, to all my subsequent prosperity.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
10  For I was envious of the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
11  Auguries were not only, as we have shown above, a main foundation of the old religion of the Gentiles, but were also the cause of the prosperity of the Roman commonwealth.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIV.
12  And thus it happens that feeble-minded princes, when they fall into difficulties, think rather of flight than of defence, because, having made bad use of their prosperity, they are wholly unprepared to defend themselves.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXXI.
13  On the other hand, no prosperity ever made them arrogant.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXXI.
14  Certainly these figures show the small amount of accumulated capital among the Negroes, and the consequent large dependence of their property on temporary prosperity.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VIII
15  With this sacrifice there is an economic opening, and perhaps peace and some prosperity.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In X
Example Sentence: (28 in 2 pages)
1  Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.
2  Allow me to congratulate you on the arrival of the New Year and to extend to you all my best wishes for your perfect health and lasting prosperity.
3  You have only to look around to see the prosperity of the district.
4  In time of prosperity, friends will be plenty.
5  Under the rule of Britain, the prosperity of the island increased considerably.
6  Let black and white as brothers, South Africa to the prosperity and development.
7  In time of prosperity, friends will be plenty; In time of adversity, not one amongst twenty.
8  And by boosting economic prosperity in Mexico, Canada and the United States, it will help us move forward on issues that concern all of us.
9  He wished the young couple a life of happiness and prosperity.
10  The enormous national debt amassed in the last eight years makes all this apparent prosperity nothing but a house of cards.
11  The growth of tourism brought prosperity to the island.
12  In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.
13  The expected increase in prosperity from the new system did not immediately come.
14  This was a man who had a hands-on approach to government and is widely credited with taking the country from poverty to prosperity.
15  The air of the moors, the freedom of home, the dawn of prosperity, acted on Diana and Mary's spirits like some life-giving elixir: they were gay from morning till noon, and from noon till night.