In a sentence
Six example sentences with thrive, each labelled with its topic.
Wildflowers thrive on the poorest soil here, which is why the meadow is mown each August but never fertilised.
Environment
Small teams thrive on constraint; give the same six people a year of runway and they will ship half as much.
Startups
The market town began to thrive again once the branch line reopened and day visitors returned every single weekend.
Travel
Shooters thrive in his system, which spaces the floor and guarantees each of them a dozen open looks a night.
Basketball
Some microbes thrive in boiling hot springs, and studying them explained how life might survive on far harsher worlds.
Science
Port cities thrived once the canal opened, while inland towns on the old cart road lost half their population in a decade.
Economics
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Found in these word lists
- Israeli Psychometric English dictionary (Campus IL / NITE)Authoritative
- Science Vocabulary ListAuthoritative
- GRE Word List 4700 (widely used study list)Recognized
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