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Example sentences for "thrived"

Lexicographically close words:
thrip; thrips; thrise; thriue; thrive; thriven; thrives; thriving; thro; throat
  1. But the Comanches were blessed by the Great Spirit, so that they thrived and were happy.

  2. So the Comanches stayed there and thrived and were happy until strange people found the place.

  3. This and two other lovely boys I had by her in three years, every one of which she brought up with the breast, and they thrived delicately.

  4. The gardens thrived in spite of the only once-a-week care.

  5. And the few bulbs and pips transplanted from there to my own garden, have thrived and spread so profusely that I, too, can pass them on to others.

  6. The practice was kill or cure, but it was in a vast majority of cases, the latter; and men who stood the hardship thrived upon it.

  7. From the habits of this animal I did not expect to succeed in taking it home, but I had every hope that some Jerboas, of which we had five, would outlive the journey, for they thrived well on the food we gave them.

  8. Amidst all the sufferings of the other animals the sheep thrived exceedingly well under Tampawang's charge who was a capital shepherd.

  9. The modern love of landscape, of country life as an aesthetic pleasure, was unknown to him.

  10. He succeeded as fifth Duke of Queensberry in 1810.

  11. Now, strange to say, though Sweep was thus so dull and disconsolate, his trade of sweeping down tall chimneys thrived as it never had thrived before.

  12. On the beautiful island of Naushon the carefully planted Gorse may be found spread in widely scattered spots and also on the near-by mainland, but it cannot be said to have thrived markedly.

  13. And there were other garden inhabitants, as truly English as were the cherished flowers, the old garden weeds, which quickly found a home and thrived in triumph in the new soil.

  14. All flowers thrived there, both in the Box-bordered beds and in the wild garden, perhaps because the morning mists from the river helped out the heavy buckets of water from the well during the hot summer weeks.

  15. I fear if Moneywort thrived enough to make a close, suitable edging, that it would thrive too well, and would swamp the borders with its underground runners.

  16. It had thrived for a while and then dwindled.

  17. But millions have eaten corned beef all their lives and have thrived on it.

  18. Before New Year's the three of us were wedded and comfortably settled, with funds galore, for the paper had thrived consumingly.

  19. It had thrived so consumingly that after a little I was able to achieve the wish of my heart and to go to London, taking my wife and my "great American novel" with me.

  20. From Devizes the family had gone to Oxford, where they lived and thrived upon the proceeds of the boy's pencil.

  21. There was a luncheon with Longfellow at Craigie House, and, on the return to Hartford, Clemens reported to Howells how Mrs. Clemens had thrived on the happiness of the visit.

  22. Little Susy and her father thrived on London life, but after a time it wore on Mrs. Clemens.

  23. He thrived in a liberal air, an air of gorgeous spending, though he sported a supercilious smile at the fioritura, the luscious excess of it.

  24. So they lay for Charlie, while he basked and thrived in the abyss of the lotus-flower; and the £160 dwindled.

  25. Mulberry trees grew spontaneously in the woods, and thrived as well as other natural productions.

  26. Yet their cattle increased in an amazing manner, and thrived exceedingly well in their forest.

  27. All but one of them lived and thrived and raised children.

  28. So, as you can see, my parents thrived and grew rich--if you count children as wealth.

  29. But even the judges disagree as to what the law is, and he was dealing with many who thrived by evading it; therefore the need of a nimble Mr. Fox who could burrow and double on his tracks with the best of them.

  30. But many of them thrived on what they could make out of the stockmen and drovers who passed through the township on their way to Rane or to the Port.

  31. So Wirree Ford became Wirreeford, and thrived and prospered until it was the busiest cattle market in the south.

  32. The Hudson is so polluted from Troy southward with sewage that the fish have been almost exterminated, and the industry of fishing on the Hudson which thrived within the memory of living men has almost disappeared.

  33. Next came the special interests that thrived on human slavery, and, in the name of State rights tried to destroy the Government they could not control.

  34. Starck's report of an instance where twins were fed on similar milk mixtures and one developed scurvy, whereas the other thrived satisfactorily, is a striking illustration of the role of idiosyncrasy.

  35. I have no doubt the horses thrived all the better for it.

  36. One had thrived there for thirty years--the independent missionary weekly known to you as My Brother's Keeper.

  37. But if the vision had failed, many a successful enterprise, then and now, thrived under the cover of Scripture House.

  38. Here thrived a bulbous root, much loved by the red man, and here lazy Pottawatomies gathered in the fall to dig it.

  39. The latter lived and thrived the year round all the way up to latitude fifty degrees north.

  40. Sister's turkeys had thrived so the year before that she had saved two hens and a handsome gobbler, and determined to breed turkeys for the fall market.

  41. In these pens the seventy, or more, chicks thrived immensely.

  42. This stolen time seemed all too short to speak of their future, gilded by a love which thrived strangely in the difficulties besetting the strangely-met couple.

  43. And so, peddling the means of murder, filling his yawning pocketbook, Fritz Braun had thrived in solitude until Irma Gluyas sought the refuge of New York City.

  44. Little Sissy and her father thrived on London life, but it wore on Mrs. Clemens.

  45. The little new baby thrived on that summer hilltop.


  46. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thrived" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.