thrive
verb (used without object)
to prosper; be fortunate or successful.
had thriven
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past perfectof thrive.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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The Cross-roads store, which had thriven so wonderfully for a year or two before the breaking out of the war, began to wear a less cheerful aspect.
From In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Years before, another wrecking party had left some goats on the island, and these had thriven and increased amazingly.
From A Memory Of The Southern Seas 1904 by Louis Becke
The notion is a last and wild expedient of despair, proposing to content itself with the uttermost abasement, if only the demons might still haunt the region where they had thriven so well.
From The Gospel According to St. Mark by G. A. Chadwick
The vegetables which had been planted on the former visit had thriven, and most of the potatoes had been dug up.
From Captain Cook His Life, Voyages, and Discoveries by William Henry Giles Kingston
But suddenly, as it seemed, he found that Jan was almost as big as himself; for the boy had thriven wondrously, though there were still several years which Jan could never make up.
From The Flower Princess The Flower Princess; The Little Friend; The Mermaid's Child; The Ten Blowers by Abbie Farwell Brown
