prosper
verb (used without object)
to be successful or fortunate, especially in financial respects; thrive; flourish.
had been prospering
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past perfect progressiveof prosper.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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Perhaps if the rector had been prospering as before, if no cloud had arisen in his sky, it might have been different.
From The New Rector by Stanley John Weyman
How the old deacon would stare if he knew how I had been prospering at the mines!
From Ben's Nugget A Boy's Search For Fortune by Horatio Alger
He settled down quietly at Hall, where meanwhile business had been prospering, and where now it put forth new vigour.
From Shining Ferry by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
