thrive
verb (used without object)
to prosper; be fortunate or successful.
have thriven
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present perfectof thrive.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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And the less their systems have rebelled against and have rejected, but, on the contrary, have conformed to and have thriven upon such brute-diet, the cruder are their organisations.
From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Arabella Kenealy
Englishmen would have thriven as well in Jamaica and the Antilles as the Spaniards have thriven in Cuba.
From The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses by James Anthony Froude
Honour and loyalty would have thriven without the chivalrous poets, as they had thriven before them in every nation on earth.
From Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 by W. P. (William Paton) Ker
The magnitude of this difficulty only appears the greater when we turn from the forty-seven socialistic experiments which have failed to the seventy-two which have thriven.
From Contemporary Socialism by John Rae
Thus, if even it could be said that overtures of reconciliation had failed in every other British hand, it would afford no proof that in Chatham's they might not have thriven and borne fruit.
From The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 2 of 2 From 1620-1816 by Egerton Ryerson
