thrive

[θraɪv]

Definition:
1. Grow stronger.
2. Gain in wealth.

Use 'thrive' in a sentence:

1. Our society needs the full participation of its younger citizens if it is to continue to thrive.
2. On his right was a thriving vegetable garden and beyond it a small orchard of apple trees.
3. He had managed to create the entirely spurious impression that the company was thriving.
4. Children thrive in the country air.
5. These animals rarely thrive in captivity.
6. While such plants clearly thrive on being carnivorous, the benefits of eating flesh are not the ones you might expect.
7. This was an important innovation, because the camel's abilities to thrive in harsh desert conditions and to carry large loads cheaply made it an effective and efficient means of transportation.
8. For without public support, it will not thrive.
9. I admire their thirst for knowledge and they seem to thrive on challenges.
10. Our country is thriving and prospering day by day.
11. However, some birds thrive in noisy environments.
12. Creative people are usually very determined and thrive on overcoming obstacles.
13. The remaining trees draw a greater share of the available moisture, so they grow and thrive, restoring the forest's capacity to pull carbon from the air.
14. Psychrotrophic bacteria thrive in very cold temperatures.
15. Now that the highway is finished, the shopping centre should thrive/ flourish/ prosper.
16. They can thrive in soil with high concentrations of metals that are toxic to most other plants.
17. Plants, insects and animals continue to survive and thrive even after a specific species disappears.
18. Governments must ensure that their major cities receive the financial support they need in order to thrive.
19. Many of us thrive on competition, but it can seep into areas of our lives where we do not want it.
20. Organizations cannot thrive without being focused on their desired end results any more than an individual can thrive without goals to provide a sense of purpose.
21. He has a thriving business.
22. The Big Four auditors appear to thrive no matter what they do.
23. Plankton generally thrive in areas of the ocean with sufficient concentrations of certain nitrogen compounds near the surface, where plankton live.
24. The country is thriving, and the nation is prosperous.
25. Three species of tilapia thrive there part-time.
26. Lavender thrives in poor soil.
27. Meteorite impacts can be advantageous for some species, which thrive, and disastrous for other species, which become extinct.
28. Some dancers may seem reluctant to participate in your project, because they do thrive on the immediacy of performing live.
29. Today his company continues to thrive.
30. Working-class parents, meanwhile, believe their children will naturally thrive, and give them far greater independence and time for free play.
31. The business is thriving and Philippa employs two full-timers for the heavy work.
32. Although in-flight infections thrive in dry environments like airplanes, your risk of getting sick from an airplane is actually low because of the air filters used.
33. Instead of wordy, worthy strategies, future governments need to do more to provide the conditions for sport to thrive.
34. For years, we have assumed it was the abundant plant life of the Mesozoic that allowed these giants to thrive.
35. In 1979, Liquor Barn thrived as a discount merchandiser.
36. A business cannot thrive without good management.
37. Every trade is thriving.
38. In the next couple of years, the businesses that thrive will be those that are tight with costs, careful of debt, cautious with cash flow and extremely attentive to what customers want.
39. A third group are known as crepuscular: they thrive in the low light of dawn and dusk and remain inactive at other hours.
40. He might as well plant an oak in a flowerpot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her to vigour in the soil of his shallow cares!
41. People need meaning to thrive.
42. Today her company continues to thrive.
43. The party thrived under his leadership.
44. The pollution could decimate the river's thriving population of kingfishers.
45. Many people thrive on a stressful lifestyle.
46. Coccophores are pelagic microscopic algae and typically thrive in the offshore photic zone of the open sea.
47. The place has rapidly developed from a small fishing community into a thriving tourist resort.
48. New businesses thrive in this area.