How to Use thriving in a Sentence

thriving

adjective
  • Growth is a sign of a thriving city.
    — Nora O'Neill, Charlotte Observer, 15 Oct. 2025
  • For here was a man who lived for more than thriving as a critic.
    — Reginald Dwayne Betts Kiese Makeba Laymon Carina Del Valle Schorske Dessa Irina Aleksander Sam Dolnick Mark Binelli Maggie Jones Rob Hoerburger Jamie Lauren Keiles Devin Gordon Jazmine Hughes Jenna Wortham Jade Chang Taffy Brodesser-Akner Kaitlyn Greenidge Rowan Ricardo Phillips Michael Paterniti Wesley Morris Ismail Muhammad Anthony Giardina, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2020
  • She's since been able to open and now has a thriving business.
    — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 Sep. 2020
  • Choose the right mowing height based on your grass type for a thriving lawn.
    — Lauren Wellbank, Martha Stewart, 17 June 2026
  • Now, the city is doing the same for its thriving music scene.
    — Anthony Solorzano, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2025
  • Remember that a healthy, thriving lawn will have a few weeds.
    — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 June 2026
  • The rec center will be paid off this year and our business parks are thriving.
    — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 21 Sep. 2021
  • Scottsdale is also home to a thriving art scene.
    — Mark Ellwood, AFAR Media, 7 Nov. 2025
  • 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
  • Even so, his grass looks like a thriving, emerald-green meadow year-round.
    — Lina Zeldovich, Washington Post, 6 July 2024
  • Once thriving spots, these villages, towns and cities now stand abandoned.
    — Joe Minihane, CNN, 9 Feb. 2022
  • Christopher is now in the care of his father and is said to be happy and thriving.
    — NBC News, 12 Oct. 2019
  • But in the evening, locals reclaim their streets and squares, and a thriving tapas scene takes over.
    — Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 10 Mar. 2026
  • This tells us our investment thesis on both stocks is alive and thriving.
    — Paulina Likos, CNBC, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The area was once a thriving spot for Black businesses.
    — Bri Buckley, CBS News, 14 May 2026
  • Yet, turning a fun side project into a thriving business takes more than long hours.
    — Caroline Castrillon, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Nowhere is that more evident than in the state’s thriving bar and nightclub scene.
    — Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2020
  • Is every city neighborhood as safe and thriving as ours?
    — Peter Jensen, Baltimore Sun, 3 June 2026
  • With blight now in the rearview, the businesses have high hopes for a thriving future.
    — Bri Buckley, CBS News, 19 May 2026
  • Plus, most of us like to slip away for some vacation time and still come home to a thriving garden.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 22 May 2026
  • His wife founded a thriving business.
    — Literary Hub, 14 May 2026
  • 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
  • Mérida, named for the town in Spain, was built on the site of a thriving Mayan city.
    — Lilit Marcus, CNN, 8 Feb. 2023
  • That’s set the stage for a contraction in what had been a thriving part of the industry.
    — Alex Ritman, Variety, 13 June 2025
  • That balance was the key to turning an idea into a thriving service.
    — Tonia Ryan, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Once a thriving mining town, Terlingua is frozen in time—in a good way.
    — Outside Online, 10 Aug. 2024
  • To have spent a week in the NICU and to now be home and thriving?
    — Selena Barrientos, Good Housekeeping, 19 Oct. 2021
  • With the elves in the background, the shoemaker and his wife build a thriving business.
    — Dan Rockmore, New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2025
  • But Steele knew it well because railroad tracks cut through the site of what had once been a thriving mill town.
    — oregonlive, 16 Aug. 2021
  • Light summer trims and proper tool care keep your maple looking neat and thriving year after year.
    — Gemma Johnstone, The Spruce, 18 Jan. 2026

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