How To Use Flourish In A Sentence

She was easy to absorb and her career has flourished. Times, Sunday Times
There was a final flourish in the last seconds of stoppage time. Times, Sunday Times
Besides that, there flourished some tufts of velvety grass, some scattered reeds, two plants of the yellow herb called tansy, four of a red flower, and a pretty white one; but the treasures of the rock consisted of three roots of garlic, which Maie had put in a cleft. The Lilac Fairy Book
Yet Highland culture continues to flourish through the Gaelic language, piping, ceilidhs (informal gatherings with traditional music, dancing and poetry) and a full schedule of Highland games.
The crisp dynamic shifts and organized flourishes whet your appetite for more of the same, especially during the radiant synth pinwheels of the chorus.

Katie finished with a flourish, pushing Cody out of the way and walking with a purpose to the reception area.
Archaeologists attribute the ruin to a flourishing prehistoric kingdom.
Then with a flourish the hands closed the bag with thick leather thongs.
Indeed, we can show the rest of Europe the way to flourish. The Sun
The curtain rises with a flourish, stirring Norm's attention out of the room.
They also have acquired a ‘natural moral sense’ that inclines them to perform the social duties required for the species to flourish.
Moravians, Mennonites, Amish, Schwenkfelders, Dunkers, and other German groups, including Rosicrucians, would flourish there.
Cher's music career continued to flourish, but the Oscar made her a genuine movie star, even if she's only made a handful of movies since.
Snow had been seen to fall also at Teneriffe, in a place lying above Esperanza de la Laguna, very near the town of that name, in the gardens of which the artocarpus flourishes. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1
It is true, however, my dear Edward, that you have lost your father; but as to this flourish of his unpleasant situation having grated upon his spirits and hurt his health — the truth is — for though it is harsh to say so now, yet it will relieve your mind from the idea of weighty responsibility — the truth then is, that Mr. Richard Waverley
If cicadas come out when few predators are around, they flourish.
Of the gambling – booths there was a plentiful show, flourishing in all the splendour of carpeted ground, striped hangings, crimson cloth, pinnacled roofs, geranium pots, and livery servants. Nicholas Nickleby
With a romantic flourish, he produces a presentation box, he gently eases it open and shows his amour some fantastically expensive ring.
Tchitcherine tracks mud off the street into the Center, gets a blush from Luba, a kind of kowtow and mopflourish from the comical Chinese swamper Chu Piang, unreadable stares from an early pupil or two. Gravity's Rainbow
When he transplanted the upunu (as the owoc called it) to the valley floor, the plants flourished.
The jak trees (artocarpus incisa), near of kin to the bread-fruit, and the durion, flourish round all the dwellings. The Golden Chersonese and the way thither
It will come as no surprise to their fans that the film is a phantasmagoria of sickly colours, psychedelic flourishes and jarring optical tics, all reflecting the state of mind of a character way out on the edge.
Beginning in sixteenth-century England, a distinct criminal culture of rogues, vagabonds, cutpurses, and prostitutes emerged and flourished.
The chorus is a real grower, complete with excellent guitar flourishes.
Eclecticism flourished in the 19th century and survived, though much debased, in gated communities and suburban tract housing.
He called it "eudemonia," that living a flourishing life. CNN Transcript Oct 7, 2005
In contrast, many pest species are introduced to the region and flourish with the large expanses of a single food source.
EVERY episode in the credit crunch has had its dramatic flourish.
The capability to manipulate high-frequency acoustic phonon generation in both temporal and spatial domains should flourish the field of nanoultrasonics.
The proper response to the globalization of greed and gluttony, and to the rise of violence in this world, is solidarity, which must manifest itself in practical actions, not just rhetorical flourishes.
The jak trees (artocarpus incisa), near of kin to the bread-fruit, and the durion, flourish round all the dwellings. The Golden Chersonese and the way thither
Huge tongues of flames, the source of which is disputed, licked the last traces of life from the once flourishing township.
‘Cyrano must build sympathy with the public in the very first scene, when he must fight and sing like a hero,’ he said, punctuating his words with a flourish of an imaginary épée.
They turn out a flamboyant blend of jazz, folk, funk and classical guitar, with flourishes of Latin acoustic guitar of a most impressive standard.
Luke slides his offset spatula under each one and then, as he goes to retract it, adds the little flourish, the barely perceptible twist of the wrist, that makes his work look simultaneously more mechanical and more balletic. The Sorcerer’s Apprentices
Manatees live in shallow waters - slow-moving rivers, estuaries, saltwater bays, canals and coastal areas, especially where seagrass beds flourish.
Full of rhetorical flourishes that bob along the way, neither standing apart from the orchestral textures nor biting into them. Times, Sunday Times
Navarre was a conservative, stable agrarian society in which Catholic Credit societies flourished in the late nineteenth century.
All about us one sees the flourishing of a vigorous new illiteracy, widely distributed and attached to muscular incivility and crime.
He is not an experienced debater, given in the past to flourishes of synthetic rage at Nationalists rather than the humour and put-down his elevated status requires.
Then, with a flourish, he thwacked my paying-in book twice with his stamp, initialled the counterfoil and handed it back to me with a relieved smile.
Greek mainland, the concentration of our population, once dispersed in flourishing centres the world over. Giorgos Seferis - Nobel Lecture
In this way a benevolent spirit is forged and wisdom is free to flourish.
In the dry late Permian environment many types of synapsids and reptiles flourished.
Transitions between items were subtly managed — cadential flourishes on the harpsichord let unlike segue into unlike. Times, Sunday Times
With a final flourish she laid down her pen.
The argument has potency, but its delivery is marred by unwelcome rhetorical flourishes and a confused narrative structure. Times, Sunday Times
Huckleberries flourish on the timbered slopes, and kinnikinick gladdens many a gravelly stretch or slope. Wild Life on the Rockies
The group flourished under her firm leadership.
Visually you can picture this as some kind of burbling pot where the foam that rises brings the violent ones to the surface and the more moderate ones remain at the bottom of the pot and receive whatever misfortunes trickle down from the bomb throwing ones who flourish at the top of the pot. When Is a Shoah not a Shoah?
The president of Business Process Industries Association of India, Samir Chopra, says eventually economic pragmatism will prevail, ensuring that outsourcing continues to flourish.
The British inland waterway system, flourishing in the early nineteenth century, was staffed by a large body of bargees who, like the railway navvies, earned an unenviable reputation for roughness.
Criticism was in repute and flourished; commentaries, notes, and quibbles, abounded on the glorious works of genius that had been written aforetime. Zoe: The History of Two Lives
In addition to his diagrammatic drawings of time and space, Saul Steinberg could render Fifth Avenue or the interior of a theater with a flourish of details that testified to his presence.
Having said that, the Memoirs, along with the substantial introduction, do give readers the flavour of the Regency period during which Harriette flourished.
The crop is just beginning to flourish. Times, Sunday Times
With a flourish, the man produced a set of papers, previously hidden inside his black cloak.
Now the water was up to his chest and his right arm flourished the vodka bottle over his head.
And it was India that was forced to absorb the goods produced while its flourishing textile industry was destroyed. Times, Sunday Times
With space at a premium in the tiny nation, futsal has flourished and Bahrain are steadily building up a high-quality national team.
‘People that subscribe to sites like these create a market and while people continue to subscribe, these sites will continue to flourish,’ he said.
In contrast to Rome, Florence appears to present itself as an artistic expression of a particular period, peaking in the 14th and 15th centuries, a period when the Roman origin of its name, "Florentia" or "the flourishing", couldn't have been more apt. The Guardian World News
Imperialism is a term often used as a rhetorical flourish and definitions vary especially in academic discourse and social discussion tracts.
As the taste for chinoiserie flourished, textiles such as chintz, wallpapers, screens and cabinets freely incorporated Asian motifs both real and imagined.
Viticulture flourished despite the frequent civil wars, which were on too small a scale to devastate the Tuscan countryside.
He bethought himself of his uncle, proprietor of a flourishing plumber and gasfitter's firm in the Broomielaw, Glasgow. THE LONELY SEA
In that context, Marine's directorial flourishes obfuscate more than they enlighten.
This was a prosperous time for Bavaria and there developed a flourishing art market, concentrating on conventional, unchallenging bourgeois genre pieces.
A few suburbs have flourished, while the inner city has decayed and once relatively stable working class communities have deteriorated.
This reminds us that Elgar was culturally a Victorian who flourished under the reign of Victoria's son.
With a great flourish and lots of pride in their faces they removed the lock from the hasp and slowly opened the old box.
These open electrically, with the added flourish of motorised blinds. Times, Sunday Times
The first, from an inconsiderable village, is become one of the most flourishing places of the kingdom, enriched by the linen, cambrick, flowered lawn, and silk manufactures. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
No one knows this more than Yale which has flourished to an unprecedented level these past 40 years as a coeducational institution. Muhtar Kent: This Century Goes to the Women
The contiguous country as white as if covered with snow, contrasted with the foliage of trees flourishing in the verdure of tropical luxuriancy*. The Settlement at Port Jackson
The pastorale was another form which flourished from the twelfth to the sixteenth century, sometimes having religious texts and then again voicing secular sentiments. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
Alternative energy companies and biotech firms with interests in stem cell research are likely to flourish under the new political regime. Times, Sunday Times
The invention of the telegraph prompted similar fears yet the language flourishes regardless. Times, Sunday Times
Yet these rhetorical flourishes are sparingly deployed. The Times Literary Supplement
One of my peers remembers that her mother forbad her to eat peaches in the summer for fear that the virus could flourish in the "peach fuzz. Polio
But it has flourished, unsurprisingly over the years, to become a much loved and cherished part of the British landscape.
Though the company achieved b*gger all turnover and its trade with the South American States produced little or no augmentation of their revenues, - it's only 'success', if you want to misname it that, being in the FORCED MIGRATION of thousands of SLAVES across the ocean - it continued to flourish as a dazzling monetary corporation - for a time. Look Back In Langour - Part 94
July 10, in unimaginably neat and flourishing script, read, Fine fine day.
The chinaberry is a warm-weather shade tree that was brought to the United States a couple of centuries ago and has flourished in the South. Childhood in a minor key
Over a period of several decades, Ewe women in the flourishing market communities solidified commercial ties and cemented their role as familial providers.
Second is the fact that liberal democracy could not flourish without modern science and technology.
Spraying with water is particularly effective for discouraging red spider mite , which flourishes in dry conditions.
The clue to the flourishing creativity lies with phosphor chemistry, which is essential to the manufacture of fluorescent lamps.
Amsterdam, the flourishing center of international maritime trade, was an ideal location for a collector of natural curios.
In Europe, patriarchy flourished as institutions such as the family, the guild, and the university evolved to restrict or exclude women's presence and power.
There was a final flourish in the last seconds of stoppage time. Times, Sunday Times
The dawning of democracy and installation of a non-racial government did not immediately bring about a change in attitudes, and the criminals flourished.
Bluebells and daffodils gathered in huge bunches where there was enough sun for them to flourish.
The connection was not immediate, however; plein-air painting had flourished for almost a century before it discovered the garden as a compelling subject.
Then he gave another whoop significant of the extreme of nervous abashedness and the incipient defiance of his masculine estate, there was a flourish of heels, followed by a swift glimmering slide of steel, and he was off trailing his sled. The Portion of Labor
London quickly became a flourishing port.
Wedding boutonnières add the final flourish to a gentlemen's outfit.
Once he was sure he was out of eyeshot of the tobacconist he dropped the pack of cigarettes, unopened, into one of the discreetly placed rubbish bins surrounded by unnaturally flourishing pot plants.
Now, without the flourish of an exclamation mark, that sign lacks verve or at least zeitgeisty voguishness. NBC Los Angeles - News Top Stories
Moreover, prostitution and venereal disease, supposedly eliminated under Mao, are once again flourishing.
Railroad building and amusement park development flourished in the post-bellum South.
Costly logos, leaflets and rampant managerialism flourish while the front line often goes short of expertise, beds and medicines. Times, Sunday Times
It flourished until the last quarter of the 18th century, when neoclassicism gained pre-eminence in Latin America.
Various types of marketing, retailing and production cooperatives also flourished in this period.
Her signature was a complicated affair of practised flourishes.
The vine is a precocious one, budding, flowering, and ripening early, which makes it prone to spring frosts but means that it can flourish in regions as cool as much of the Loire.
Pop a raspberry in the middle of each for a final flourish. Times, Sunday Times
In his fifth season in NYC, he flourished as the Knicks' enforcer - and did it as a center.
Truly, "warlike, manly courage and devotion to duty" seem the flowers that flourish hereaway. From Edinburgh to India & Burmah
An accident of birth made me native to New York City where I grew but didn't flourish.
The extreme attitudes of the Scottish male were allowed to flourish unchecked. The Prisons We Deserve
He bought the drill and spent the rest of the trip flourishing it like a footballer with the World Cup.
He rushed into the room flourishing the newspaper.
officinalis" or medical name, perhaps also the belief that "where rosemary flourishes, the lady rules! Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses
Lewis was a leading member of an influential group of Catholic writers who flourished between the wars.
Dynamite By Louis Adamic (1931) Louis Adamic 's "Dynamite" was — and remains — the only popular overview of the violent clashes that accompanied the flourishing of American industry from the Gilded Age through the New Deal. Terror in America From Another Era
Opening it with a flourish, she gestured him outside. SOMEDAY MY PRINCE
The dirt heats up earlier in deteriorate as good as stays warmer for longer during a finish of a season, to illustrate extending a altogether flourishing window. Archive 2009-12-01
Their careers flourished as his fell off a cliff. Times, Sunday Times
Developer Glinert looks at the four main elements -- learnability, simplicity, efficiency, and aesthetic -- that help game usability to flourish.
Can wearable technology be part of human flourishing? Christianity Today
It just meanders along on nothing more than a song and a flourish of some pretty costumes.
The entry was signed in a flourish, so completely different to the blocky spidery writing that was the previous entries.
But our spirituality DOES deeply need openings and pauses and receptivity to flourish, this is just as "spiritual" as outwardness and activity. Taking Time To Reflect
Greystones Farm is a site of special scientific interest, with lowland wet meadow in which orchids flourish.
From a burrow hidden beneath a flourish of saltwort, a land iguana watched them pass, not even bothering to lift its head. MINUTES TO BURN
Years later people still say to the daughter that the plant is flourishing.
The author states with a grand rhetorical flourish: ‘Rome broke the tribalism of Celtic Britain with the iron claw of its uniformity’.
This enabled his plants to flourish to show standards. Times, Sunday Times
After a series of false starts and missteps, Yates finally has made the right move, under circumstances that will allow the team to flourish.
Under the abbacy of St Ailred, it flourished, becoming the largest Cistercian community in England.
Throughout, Tait notes that Witherspoon's sermons were earnest, clear, precise, direct, and unembellished by rhetorical flourishes.
Corruption occurs when that information is not freely available - cover-up and concealment are necessary for insider trading to flourish.
Walking along the path, we appreciated the flourishing bamboo that surrounded the multitudes of deep green water pools stocked with small fish.
This is a mainly male preserve and picnics flourish throughout the summer on match days.
Other creatures can also flourish there, including quail, jackrabbits, and small, wild pigs called javelinas.
The process flourished less than two decades before "ambrotype," the next of many successively faster and cheaper photographic processes, began to replace it. Merced Sun-Star: front
Some 4600 years ago, another city, known as Mohenjo-Daro, flourished in the Indus River valley. October « 2008 « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website
When Matusky walked into U.S. Technologies' offices in downtown Washington, he opened the meeting by whipping the fake million-dollar bill out of his billfold with a flourish.
Desire and jealousy flourish at the margin of what is knowable, just beyond the limits of what Pandosto can see.
Virginis), because the name sodality was in a special manner peculiar to these, also because their labours for the renewal of the life of the Church were more permanent and have lasted until the present time, so that these sodalities after fully three hundred years still prosper and flourish. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
Her thin, lank hair thickened and flourished, and roses bloomed in her milky cheeks. Slice Of Cherry
Lane held the poetry untranslatable because abounding in the figure Tajnís, our paronomasia or paragram, of which there are seven distinct varieties,433 not to speak of other rhetorical flourishes. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Rhodes is an outstanding defensive player who is expected to flourish as a small forward or shooting guard.
Some medicines expected to be big sellers flop; some produced with only modest expectations flourish.
In the 1820s Bath, Bristol, Dublin, and Edinburgh, cities which had flourished in the eighteenth century, were all still raising classical squares, streets, and crescents.
Beginners offsets its depressing premise with arty flourishes that veer close to smug. The Sun
For sericulture to flourish in the State, it was about time that its promotion started at the grassroot level.
Beginners offsets its depressing premise with arty flourishes that veer close to smug. The Sun
The citizen who fears the ill-smelling drunk, the rowdy teenager, or the importuning beggar is not merely expressing his distaste for unseemly behavior; he is also giving voice to a bit of folk wisdom that happens to be a correct generalization — namely, that serious street crime flourishes in areas in which disorderly behavior goes unchecked. Broken Windows
If in Anatole France the savant has not lately flourished to the detriment of the fighting philosopher, why should he have spent years on the "Joan of Arc" at a period when Jaurès urgently needed intellectual aid against the doctrinarianism of the International Congress? Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911
The images shot forth in a flourish of colour and noise, startling him as a distant memory became unforgotten.
A donation to ACW would enable this work to flourish. Archive 2009-06-01
The film has the rhetorical flourishes of the certain, but the confusion of the tentative.
Elle laid out the centerfold layout with a flourish on the table in the Lit magazine office.
Minimalism fiction stripped to verbal basics, shunning flourish and style, and McGurl's alternative category of miniaturism, are not so much genuine artistic movements as system grotesqueries imitating theory, creative writing's opposite ravenous beast. Anis Shivani: Can Writing Be Taught? The Systems-Theory Rationalizations Of An Insider
His chess political and organisational activities also flourished. Times, Sunday Times
There was no rhetorical flourish at the end, no elevation. Times, Sunday Times
There is a race of quill-drivers, confined in the columns of the budget between the first degree of latitude (a kind of administrative Greenland where the salaries begin at twelve hundred francs) to the third degree, a more temperate zone, where incomes grow from three to six thousand francs, a climate where the bonus flourishes like a half-hardy annual in spite of some difficulties of culture. Father Goriot
Nor can incompetence be allowed to flourish unchecked.
When Jefferson asserted the self-evident nature of truth it was no simple rhetorical flourish.
This occurs when colonic bacteria accumulate above the obstructing lesion and flourish in a nutrient medium.
It was thought," says Nashe, in his Quaternio, "a kind of solecism, and to savour of effeminacy, for a young gentleman in the flourishing time of his age to creep into a coach, and to shroud himself from wind and weather: our great delight was to out-brave the blustering boreas upon a great horse; to arm and prepare ourselves to go with Mars and Bellona into the field was our sport and pastime; coaches and caroches we left unto them for whom they were first invented, for ladies and gentlemen, and decrepit age and impotent people. Bracebridge Hall
Dan peered down into the water alongside, and flourished the big "muckle," ready for all chances. Captains Courageous
Much of it sounds like a throwback to the heady days of the Sixties but also infused with cool, contemporary flourishes. The Sun
The friends draw the obvious corollary: if you are not flourishing but withering, you must be doing something wrong. READING THE BIBLE AGAIN FOR THE FIRST TIME: Taking the Bible Seriously but Not Literally.
Many of them flourish in a broad range of habitats, and nearly all of them are adapted for wide dispersal.
The whole thing could almost be played as a dumbshow, with flourishes of grand guignol.
Sometimes they flourished as city-state systems, as in early Sumeria, classical Greece, the Maya civilization, and medieval Europe.
Except the pawnbroker's, the distiller's, and the undertaker's, the houses are literally ruins; but these doorkeepers to Famine, Disease, and Death, living by the calamities of others, are in a flourishing state.
Mexican Girl" brings in some obvious yet suitable flourishes, such as castanets and Spanish guitar, neither of which one tends to associate with the Beach Boys. Expecting Rain
If all TECs are as helpful and supportive as Bradford, then long may they flourish.
They have acquired the expertise in creating perfect conditions where the species can flourish and grow naturally.
During her time at St Barnabas, it flourished as a hospital with a busy outpatient department and four clinics, one 40 miles distant.
By the second century AD, the Lyceum was again a flourishing center of philosophical activity.
Agriculture, manufactures, and commerce, again flourished under the protection of the laws; and the curioe, or civil corporations, were again filled with useful and respectable members: the youth were no longer apprehensive of marriage; and married persons were no longer apprehensive of posterity: the public and private festivals were celebrated with customary pomp; and the frequent and secure intercourse of the provinces displayed the image of national prosperity. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
I flourished my white handkerchief. BLACK KNIGHTS: On the Bloody Road to Baghdad
They had to remain clear of the flourishing streets until the peak hour was over.
It fostered a vigorous but conservatively minded fandom, which still flourishes and holds many conventions, large and small.
He drove the mare ahead inside the furlong pole, getting first run on Peineve, who finished with a flourish, but was still a neck adrift at the line.
Yet is there no competent Judge that findeth them wanting in those Ancient ones, and that doth not much more admire that smoothly equall neatnesse, continued sweetnesse, and flourishing comelinesse of Catullus his Epigrams, than all the sharpe quips and witty girds wherewith Martiall doth whet and embellish the conclusions of his. Of Bookes.
For a millennium before the arrival of Spanish conquistadors in the early sixteenth century, great cities flourished close to what is now the lively Peruvian coastal city of Chiclayo, as they did elsewhere in Peru.
Since July 4, 1776, thanks to the victories and struggles of our forefathers and foremothers, America has flourished as an expanding democracy.
The underlying rock is unforgiving granite, and the soil above it is so poor that little seems to flourish. THE EARTH: An Intimate History
It seems to trigger a cascade of immune effects in the womb that could make it harder for embryos to flourish. Times, Sunday Times
It was Dürer whose readiness to embrace the new technology of the printing press – his prints are as great as his paintings, or greater – set the modernising, forward-looking, and productive tone of German art right down to today, when new art flourishes in a Berlin that is the worthy heir to the cosmopolis portrayed in Kirchner's painting Potsdamer Platz. Auf wiedersehen Britart: Germany wins when it comes to art
Traditional beliefs still flourish alongside a modern urban lifestyle.
Besides the famous Golden Age of Athens, earlier Greek civilizations also flourished and produced sightworthy art.
But flourishing a file of letters of complaint sent to the authority since early spring, the local farmer said the council was in the wrong.
Berlin was an inveterate correspondent, living during the last great flourishing of letter writing.
Human kindness still flourishes in an uncertain world. The Sun
Our research suggests that many people see economic independence as necessary security for a partnership to flourish. Times, Sunday Times
Symbolic interactionism continued to flourish into the post World War II Era.
Painting flourished in Italy in the fifteenth century.
For the school to flourish and thrive, just like a plant it needs to be placed in fertile and well-prepared soil, be strongly rooted and well-nourished and cared for.
The effect snowballs, allowing smaller predators like foxes, hawks, owls, and pine martens to flourish.
Nearby was a 400-square-yard warehouse with more plants flourishing in conditions controlled by artificial lighting and automatic watering systems.
The tone was firm and sweet, and fiendish semiquaver flourishes attacked with unanimity and boldness. Times, Sunday Times
Distributist and subsidiarist ideas, encouraging guilds and associations, flourished for a time in 1920s Italy in the form of Mussolini's early corporatism.
We ate our breakfast that morning with a fortune in gold coin under the table; and when the boat came down the river, bringing a quiet man whom Mr. Johnston introduced as the very person we were seeking, and who himself in quaint pidgin English corroborated the statement that he it was who had sent to Thomas Webster the five teakwood chests, we paid him the money and received in return his receipt beautifully written with small flourishes of the brush. The Mutineers

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