[
US
/ˈθɹaɪv/
]
[ UK /θɹˈaɪv/ ]
[ UK /θɹˈaɪv/ ]
VERB
-
make steady progress; be at the high point in one's career or reach a high point in historical significance or importance
The new student is thriving -
grow vigorously
business is booming
The deer population in this town is thriving
How To Use thrive In A Sentence
- While maintaining a level of accessibility and providing information are important, this must not dumb the work down, compromise the artists' intentions, or remove the challenge aspect of art that many people thrive on.
- When alive, the spiders kept on the gaster-only diet initially grew but then shriveled, while those eating the head, legs and thoraces thrived, with some tripling their weight. Why Spiders Always Devour Ants Head First | Impact Lab
- Many archaea thrive at hot temperatures (they are also found in volcanoes). Smithsonian
- But many creatures besides humans have thrived without them and continue to do just fine, thank you very much. Smithsonian Mag
- Such a child will rapidly thrive once an appropriate nutritional diet is provided.
- There are now believed to be only 12 places in the country where the fritillary thrives, and Cricklade North Meadow has the highest proportion of the blooms.
- And like past challenges to civilization, such barbarism thrives on Western appeasement and considers enlightened deference as weakness, if not decadence.
- But Walter Mulbry, the USDA microbiologist, also showed that corn and cucumber seedlings could thrive on an organic fertilizer made from the dried-out algae.
- The ranks of nonconformity thrived in an expanding economy of independency where the artisan might still feel closer to the petty capitalist than to the unskilled labourer.
- Many fishes have trouble surviving as lakes’ temperatures rise and dissolved-oxygen levels fall, but the arapaima thrives because it breathes atmospheric oxygen through its mouth.