How To Use Thriving In A Sentence

When the baby is not thriving and gaining steadily in weight, or is fretty and cries a good deal, and does not rest and sleep peacefully, something, of course, is wrong. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol 2 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies
And at least one expensive brand is thriving. Times, Sunday Times
It is a thriving shopping centre for the people who live in the immediate area .
Dr Harnett said pond insects and water plants were already thriving, and some visitors had seen newts and frogs.
The cassowary evolved amid the Wet Tropics, thriving on figs, quandongs, and other distinctive fruits.

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As for the impact of popular culture, Kay says that the evidence isn't so much that TV levels out language, but that strong regional accents from all over Britain seem to be thriving.
Life can evolve representations of itself capable of thriving in environments that seem hostile now.
This leads directly to the garden room with its thriving oleander, banana plant and mature vine.
The venture turned into a thriving and profitable business. Times, Sunday Times
The shop and cafe were once a thriving business and despite a recent upturn in fortunes, a three-year period of losses have led to charity chiefs deciding it is no longer financially viable.
Its total headcount is higher than it was in 2014 and the company is thriving. Times, Sunday Times
The man shrugged when asked about the family who only a week ago ran a thriving business. Times, Sunday Times
The island is home to troops of long-tailed macaques that live on the mangosteens, rambutans, jambus, mata kucings, and other fruits thriving among the groves of palm and dense thickets of casuarina and barrington trees.
Affects include desires, wishes, a sense of health or debility: They are ideational indicants of bodily thriving or declining.
The tour begins and ends in Addis Ababa with its thriving culture, ancient churches, cosmopolitan eateries and outdoor markets.
You experience a thriving mix of Maori, forestry, arts and crafts, a champion Maori rugby team, Tolaga Bay knitwear, peerless beaches and matchless surf.
It is said that there is now a comic for everyone and indeed the gay and black communities have thriving titles.
Finally, regional media is thriving on TV, satellite language channels are catering to polyglot populations in various parts of the country.
When will the seakale be fit to cut, and when will the crocuses come up? will the violets be sweeter than ever? and the geranium cuttings, are they thriving? we have dug, and manured, and sown, and we look forward to the reaping, and to see our garners full. Castle Richmond
The pedestrianised street is one of the main thoroughfares in the city and lends itself to street music and entertainment as well as thriving business.
If the school is thriving, overflowing with vibrant young energy then it's a sure sign the community is too.
The city's souvenir T-shirt shops are also thriving on gallows humour. Times, Sunday Times
In order to adapt, we will have to work together to create community-based collectives, which will prove increasingly easy to do since, owing to the lack of multinationals, global expansion has decreased to the point of not only preserving the last of the cultivatable land but creating more of it -- after all, global warming is no longer an issue and the environment is thriving. Thomas Stern: A Kick in the Career: Bailout, Bailout, Who's Got the Bailout?
Next month we take a look at athletes who have demonstrated business savvy by developing thriving enterprises while still making moves on the gridiron, baseball field, or basketball court.
Nowadays, after a glossy makeover, it is a symbol of a thriving European city, facing a bright, optimistic future.
The younger children are thriving and living peaceful lives here in Bolton.
Yet there are six subspecies of sandhill crane, and not all are thriving.
Some components of a thriving friendship are honesty, naturalness, thoughtfulness, some common interests.
The town was once a thriving fishing port and is now mainly a holiday destination. Times, Sunday Times
Despite a thriving democracy, the justice system has not always been successful in stopping fascist thuggery.
I enjoyed my three supposedly overdue weeks, and my instinct was always that my baby was thriving.
This was a breakthrough exhibition for painter Greg Stone, who has long been a mainstay of the thriving arts community in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
It also had a thriving black culture rooted in the blues, gospel and jazz.
The first concerns individuals engaged in occupations or avocations in which chasing the spotlight and thriving on the adulation of others are not only appropriate and adaptive but a sine qua non for success.
There was a thriving black market in foreign currency.
Much to my dismay, however, mashup culture seems to be not only thriving but expanding. Times, Sunday Times
Since launching in 2000, Eyetools had built a thriving consulting business by helping clients understand exactly how Internet users react when navigating a website.
Last year, it was also discovered that the site has a thriving population of the endangered water vole due to the rank grass which provides ideal protection and a source of food.
In its original form, though, it epitomises a country that was economically thriving and confident in its global position. Times, Sunday Times
Are bloggers becoming a thriving alternative to the mainstream media or just a collection of carping critics who live to slam the news outlets, anchors and reporters they don't like?
In addition, two main temples were constructed on the acropolis, and a thriving seaport at present-day Minet el-Beida was located about half a mile away.
A sometime documentary filmmaker, she traveled to the once-thriving industrial town of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, in order to chronicle the lives of a generation of teenage unwed mothers.
This insight is the basis of lease-an-ear, a thriving service branch. Oskar Pastior : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
The place has rapidly developed from a small fishing community into a thriving tourist resort.
Breakdancing, since its conception in the early seventies in New York has been largely ignored by the media but is thriving as a subculture sport and underground art form.
But now I think about, even the thriving malacology departments I've known tend to be inhabited by the decidedly elderly. Where are all the malacologists?
About 50 percent of all beverage cans are re-cycled, creating a thriving international market in recycled aluminum.
He is thriving after rediscovering his scoring form.
Catalonia has fared better than Scotland at holding on to its manufacturing base and still has thriving car, chemical and electronics factories as well as a significant financial sector.
To see a once-thriving city reduced to beggary and emptiness, to live one day at a time in point of food and medicine, to see an old European order brutally and efficiently overturned, to notice the utterly casual way in which human life can be snuffed out, and to see war machines wheeling and diving in the overcast sky: such an education! The Catastrophist
The Sequoia sempervirens, which is commonly called redwood, is distributed along the Coast Range, the trees thriving only when they are constantly swept by the sea fogs. History of California
Renowned for its red rock formations, Native American history, and jaw-dropping scenery, Sedona is also home to a thriving arts community.
He had managed to create the entirely spurious impression that the company was thriving.
Have a thriving and happy new year.
Less than 200 years ago, the ratites (named after the Latin for having a flattened sternum, a result of not needing powerful flying muscles) were still thriving. The Times Literary Supplement
At first glance, the junkyard looks like some sort of post-apocalyptic settlement, a thriving outpost in a wasteland.
It was sheer audacity from a man aged 41 years and 147 days and yet still thriving in international cricket. The Sun
Several previously declining bird species are now thriving, including the red kite, marsh harrier, osprey, honey buzzard and whooper swan. Times, Sunday Times
As we began descending from mountains into the desert, I saw agaves, cacti, and ocotillo thriving on the dry, rugged slopes.
In the age of dinosaurs, North America was divided in two by the Western Interior Sea, and the Great Plains was a skeleton-covered sea bottom, the water above it home to sharks, squid, manta rays, giant clams, giant reptile mosasaurs and plesiosaurs, and plankton, a microscopic animal still thriving today. Kansas.com: -- Front
But to a close-knit community not far from the city centre, Fietas was a thriving community and home to several thousands of coloureds, Malays, Indians and whites in the decades before the 1970s.
As tragic events unfolded in Europe, Luce ran his thriving magazine empire with an odious tilt.
Instead of being a hotbed of thriving life and action it is a hotbed of crime and depravity, allowed to overwhelm a forgotten, overlooked, uncared for community!
In the battle against bird flu, international health authorities must handle a thriving legal trade in live birds and chicks.
Our city needs thriving locals far more than it needs another video shop or burger bar.
Back in the real world, Oxford is not just the turf of toffs and boffs: it was a major car-manufacturing centre until the terminal decline of the British car industry and is now a thriving centre of service industries.
California studying the burling owl, a threatened species that is thriving in this part of California. MSDN Blogs
Meanwhile, the rosemary is doing just fine now, and the hardier looking specimens have their permanent home, where they're definitely thriving. From Twitter 07-13-2009
But the impressive building caught the eye of patissier John Slattery and, with the support of his two daughters, Kate and Laura, he intends to expand his thriving business.
Changzhou Lanling pay of five shopping malls located in Changzhou Limited thriving commercial center, labor Road.
One good pointer could be the presence of a thriving village pub. Times, Sunday Times
Connolly barely held on in thriving suburban Fairfax - the county he long represented on the County Board of Supervisors - and lost the Prince William County portion of his district. Va. Democrats took a bruising, but state still remains in 'purple' territory
And three of those are well practised at thriving on catastrophe. Times, Sunday Times
The archaeological excavation uncovered what was once a thriving church community.
As World War I unfolded in Europe, intensifying ethnic antagonisms, native-born Americans became increasingly suspicious of the pockets of immigrant culture thriving among them. The End of White America?
It is also home to a thriving, resilient and somewhat embattled, lesbian and gay community, with five gay bars, a gay theatre, and a community centre.
The critical resource is personnel - dedicated and energetic and perseverant - with a vision for a thriving undergraduate physics program.
The documentation of thriving stinkpot turtle and map turtle populations in the creek, both of which use the existing bridge site for access to egg laying areas, increases our concerns about environmental harm.
The village is a bit too olde-worlde and more of a museum than a thriving community.
It became more and more difficult for the whorehouses, thriving as they did in an atmosphere of degradation and unbridled lust, to survive in such a regulatory environment.
Earlier generations gained practice from time spent in the repertory system and a thriving commercial touring circuit. Times, Sunday Times
The rails will be a permanent reminder of the heyday of the station as a thriving terminus.
The once thriving riverside town has been reduced to rubble, most of its buildings leveled by the earthquake.
Plants thriving on the meadows include oxeye daisy, yellow-rattle, meadowsweet, bird's-foot trefoil and common knapweed.
What I find bewildering is that they've chosen to cut a successful, well-loved, thriving arts organisation. Spending review 2010: living with the cuts
To such Germans, Jews seemed hyper-modernists, thriving on the forces that threatened the volk.
The Asian topmouth gudgeon - notorious for its breeding rates - is already thriving in Britain's lakes and rivers, including inlets to the River Ouse in North Yorkshire.
Claudia Rose runs a thriving business as a graphologist who the local law enforcement recognizes for her forensic handwriting skills. Written in Blood-Sheila Lowe « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews
Trade in staple commodities was already thriving and British merchants tried not to miss this opportunity.
A few of the horses after their voyage were in good order, and the most of the others, which were in such low condition from their insufficient allowance of water from Moreton Bay to Torres Strait, now showed, from their having plenty of water since their reshipment at Hardy's Islands, that they were in a thriving state. Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills
In my biased view, as long as there is pecan pie, there will be a thriving pecan industry in the United States.
The family lives in the Mount Airy neighborhood of Philadelphia, a diverse area known for its ethnic diversity and vibrant Jewish life, home to rabbinical students and faculty at the nearby Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, a thriving Pnai Or congregation, and the lively Germantown Jewish Center, where three minyanim meet and work together on many social action projects. Ellen Frankel.
After more than six hours of perilous switchbacks and countless near-misses with overburdened Indian Tata trucks we've arrived at the trekking gateway of Pokhara, a thriving and laidback city on the shores of Phewa Lake.
Thriving in a time when only the agile survive requires continual reinvention.
He said that he thought the Government should have homed in on less successful regiments, adding that the more thriving units were ‘sacrificial lambs’.
The word bikini finally entered global nomenclature in the 1960s, when America’s thriving military-industrial pop culture complex would deliver bikini-clad female bombshells to the free world in song lyrics, magazine covers, movies, and Bob Hope’s USO shows. The English Is Coming!
Thriving small settlements must have an active and mostly locally based economy.
Both cities boast a vibrant and thriving business community, featuring many car dealerships, retail stores and restaurants.
It's exciting to see the strawberry plants thriving and flowering.
He has been touring tirelessly, remembering to use his Mercury Prize as a doorstop, leaving just enough room for the rest of East London's thriving scene to slide through.
Once Crowe Farm had been a thriving piggery but the buildings had become derelict.
Now Lenny is a reformed alcoholic with a white wife, a thriving writing career and a guilty conscience.
I need only mention such enormities as _thuggee_, _sattee_, infant murder, etc., all of which were thriving even a hundred years ago, but which are now things of the past. India, Its Life and Thought
In both counties, the rural food producers sit alongside a thriving manufacturing and engineering sector. Times, Sunday Times
The cinema became especially thriving and creative, with multiscreen theatres attracting many more film-goers.
A network of desert springs known as Bylas Springs, lying adjacent to the Gila River on the San Carlos Indian Reservation in Arizona, was once home to a thriving population of Gila topminnows.
The restaurant takes its name from a local saloon of the early 1900s, when Winthrop was a thriving frontier town serving trappers, prospectors, and homesteaders.
Inspiration for the scheme came from Bristol's thriving employment agency that has been in existence for 14 years.
There's a thriving energy and excitement about, and the whole perception of the town as a cultural desert is so wrong.
A former NWFP governor, Lt-Gen I.H. Shah ordered a thriving pheasantry to be removed from Dhodial in District Manshera.
Jean was an illuminator who established a thriving workshop in Bourges with the help of André Rousseau, a scribe, manuscript agent, and the librarian of the university.
There was a thriving black market in foreign currency.
The bok choi are a little more hardy, however, and the survivors seem to be thriving. In case anyone was wondering...
The town of Westhoughton has got a thriving toyshop and a couple of locksmiths.
Born in the Italian city of Bari, raised in Vigo in the Spanish region of Galicia and currently thriving at FC Barcelona, Thiago Alcantara certainly has as an interesting background.
Streams from the mountains' snows converged, so there was water for thriving crops like grapes and olives and lush grasses for cattle to graze on.
From trapeze artists to storytellers, puppeteers to video artists, Bradford's arts scene is thriving thanks to millions of pounds worth of funding over the past year.
The parties still accounted for the bulk of last year's £64m turnover although the shops and a thriving online business are catching up fast.
At the present season, a thriving field of Indian corn, now in its most perfect growth and tasselled out, occupies nearly half of the hollow; and it is like the lap of bounteous Nature, filled with breadstuff. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866
She was decreed to be thriving, well above average. Times, Sunday Times
This is certainly a characteristic of Maine where port cities were thriving in the eighteenth century and then suffered a twofold economic downturn in the wake of the Embargo of 1807 and the War of 1812.
The project trains volunteers in permaculture gardening, and the clinic garden is thriving.
Rimini is a thriving holiday resort on the east coast of Italy.
There she joined and helped shape a thriving community of Jewish feminists, becoming a ritualist who invented new rites of passage to mark the new era. Esther M. Broner.
-- I never heard that any prodigies preceded or accompanied his nativity; or that the planets, or his mother's cravings during her pregnancy, had sealed him with any particular mark or badge of distinction: but have been well assured he was a fine boy, sucked heartily of his mother's milk, and what they call a thriving child. Life's Progress Through The Passions Or, The Adventures of Natura
Gloucester Docks was a thriving port until the 1960's, when it went into decline as traffic moved to the motorways.
This thriving business is a real bottler.
She runs a thriving grocery business.
The thriving Teesside club also finished third in a special challenge award for the first 12 men home, underlining their strength-in-depth.
‘For thousands of years before Confederation we were living here, thriving and conducting the business of our nations within our own confederacies and confederations,’ he said.
And with the return of representational art has come the revival of portraiture, which, according to gallery owners and the artists themselves, is thriving and strong.
Maple was chosen for the flooring, not only for its attractive finish but also because the surface amplifies the sound of movement, giving the impression of a thriving workplace.
With a thriving orchestra, wind-band, ensembles and choirs, and a full range of instrument lessons on offer, music is well represented in the school.
Other places of its kind have gone the same road and after sale have been developed into thriving places of business.
And it's not just grocery shopping and electricals where discounts are thriving. The Sun
I am thriving albeit not polyandrous...yet on my own. Alexis Marble: Carla Bruni and Me
Since the coins minted by feudal lords and kings were hard to pass except in limited districts, and since the danger of counterfeit or light-weight coins was far greater than now, the "money-changers" who would buy and sell the coins of different countries did a thriving business at A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1.
There was a thriving black market in foreign currency.
There is a thriving leisure class, which has given way to a class of well-off entertainers - dancers, acrobats, singers and other such performers in addition to the usual street variety.
Frequently theatrical and melodramatic, it captured the tensions of wartime Britain, thriving in enforced isolation.
With its nautical bells, daguerreotypes of 1920s Fiumincino, and mountains of freshly-caught fish, it is part of the town's maritime heritage that has been thriving since the Roman days when the port was built by the Emperor Trajan. Plucking the Finest Fruits From the Sea
The marshland was a fertile and thriving place, catalyzed with life large and small. Into the Thinking Kingdoms
With the establishment of major new markets, the economy is thriving.
Many ministers and priests trained and were first employed before the 1960s and they joined thriving institutions.
History had become a thriving discipline in nineteenth-century Germany, and philosophy of history followed in its train.
He would prelect over some thriving plant with wonderful enthusiasm, piling reminiscence on reminiscence of former and perhaps yet finer specimens. Memories and Portraits
People Open, thriving enterprises do not exclude people in ways that violate fair-hiring laws.
A thriving trade in child abductions is rife throughout the country which sees many young children sold into slavery or the sex trade.
Previously thriving tea rooms and the farm shops were empty and tills stood idle.
A new survey has revealed that populations of waders such as lapwing, curlew and snipe are thriving because land is being managed with their needs in mind.
Michael Hinterdobler, director of international relations at the state chancellery, says both Bavarias are thriving: There has been a renaissance. How Bavaria became a European silicon valley
And of course, all those wonderful exotics planted in Joubert Park are still there, thriving since they were planted over 100 years ago.
I see a potential thriving robotics industry here, a software industry and a biotech.
He had managed to create the entirely spurious impression that the company was thriving.
The city's souvenir T-shirt shops are also thriving on gallows humour. Times, Sunday Times
Wendy, a married mother of three, oversees Parador Pictures, a thriving Miramax-like movie studio, and Victory, a diehard bachelorette and fashion designer, runs her own clothing company.
As we began descending from mountains into the desert, I saw agaves, cacti, and ocotillo thriving on the dry, rugged slopes.
Yet limited monarchy (a ceremonial component of a constitutional government) is thriving.
Slugs and snails have been thriving, increasing the risk of potentially fatal lungworm infections in pets, as they carry the parasite. Times, Sunday Times
Belfast is a different city, thriving with new businesses.
The place has rapidly developed from a small fishing community into a thriving tourist resort.
Last year I grew a dark red variety which was really striking, thriving on neglect despite the dismal weather.
Yet corruption and impunity are thriving. Times, Sunday Times
Brighton seemed a more fitting choice, with its faster trains, commuter population and thriving arts scene. Times, Sunday Times
But like many town centres, it has suffered because of its nearness to thriving Manchester city centre and the Trafford Centre.
So, imagine my surprise when I turned my masked face into the water and had a thriving aquatic housing project revealed to me in all its glory.
In Scotland, Orbost is a thriving wood in an area that was heavily deforested in previous centuries.
She was decreed to be thriving, well above average. Times, Sunday Times
By the mid 1950s - 60s, the UK's once-thriving population had been reduced to remnant populations in the south west of England, East Anglia, parts of Wales and Scotland.
We must provide ourselves with the complete equipment, not of a village community, not of a thriving town, but of a true metropolis, large enough for a citizen of the world to live in without feeling himself provincialized, and not too large for one honest mayor like our own to handle. Parks for the People Proceedings of a Public Meeting held at Faneuil Hall, June 7, 1876
But there's so much life tied to that compact space, so much to observe and absorb in those 200 yards, I often come away feeling as if I've taken a drive in the country rather than idled along a cable fence in the middle of a thriving metroplex.
In its original form, though, it epitomises a country that was economically thriving and confident in its global position. Times, Sunday Times
Although they have a rather grubby reputation, business has been thriving and this has been reflected in strong returns. Times, Sunday Times
Kew Gardens had a thriving hedgehog population until the mid 1980s when badgers first arrived there. Times, Sunday Times
I hope open Symbian turns that into an again thriving ecosystem. Android, hope and skepticism : #comments
The once-thriving industry is a rump of what it once was: LAB Chrysotile, of Thetford Mines, Que., says it employs 350 people. CBC | Top Stories News
The resulting demand led to the creation of a thriving business in eurodollar deposits. Times, Sunday Times
They point to long-term costs that even a thriving enterprise would be hard pressed to minimize or absorb.
Don Pedro Gil: his progeny grew up a thriving and merry-hearted, though short and bandy-legged generation, while Senora Gil, befringed, belaced, and betasselled from her head to her heels, with glittering rings on every finger, became a model of slattern fashion and finery. The Alhambra
The place has rapidly developed from a small fishing community into a thriving tourist resort.
Under progressive taxation your amount of thriving is diminished, to support welfare recipients, which if you yourself are on, then you lose the right to fail or thrive on your own merits.
The pollution could decimate the river's thriving population of kingfishers.
Instead of a city whose pulse thumps like a toothache, Hobart gives you swooping hills and stone warehouses, colonial, harbour-side cottages, and Salamanca Place's thriving street market.
A physiotherapist who had a thriving practice desperately wanted to make a dramatic career change by becoming an author.
We'd like to see this prime riverside site restored to the benefit of the city and making a real contribution to a thriving York economy.
George Hudson was the far-sighted entrepreneur who single-handedly transformed York into a thriving, modern city.
The place has developed from a fishing port into a thriving tourist centre.
In Kuwait, as in many Islamic countries, the art of calligraphy is one of the most longstanding and thriving forms of expression.
The micro breweries, often based on very few pubs, seem to be thriving.
It is a lively, thriving collection of diverse women whose depth of knowledge and experience never fails to amaze me, but who are kind and supportive and above all very practical.
The man shrugged when asked about the family who only a week ago ran a thriving business. Times, Sunday Times
It comes as evidence shows that fast-food restaurants are thriving despite campaigns to promote healthy eating. Times, Sunday Times
The site was contaminated with copper arsenate, a fairly noxious substance, but the fern was apparently thriving.
Praising the thriving Indian media scene and the work of Indian investigative magazine Tehelka, Brown said the title translated to "Bomb" in Hindi. Abi Wright: Tina Brown to Columbia J School Students: Go to India!
Have a thriving and happy new year.
The place has developed from a fishing port into a thriving tourist centre.
All members of the community stand to benefit by creating a thriving rural environment.
Paths lined with eucalyptus planted by the early Jewish settlers lead to thriving kibbutzim, to guesthouses and fine restaurants.
Thanks to the effort of local people, that derelict piece of waste ground has now been transformed into a thriving urban nature park.
The haul indicated that the shahtoosh trade was still thriving despite a four-year-old international ban on its sale and ownership. Times, Sunday Times

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