Example Sentences

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The intense humidity wilted the $20 breakfast receipt in my pocket, but the orchids and plumeria around me were thriving.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025

This suggests that fungi were thriving on Earth hundreds of millions of years before plants began to grow.

From Science Daily • Oct. 28, 2025

A spokesman for the National Gamekeepers’ Organisation insisted that birds of prey were "thriving on land managed for shooting" and that its members were achieving "enormous conservation successes".

From BBC • Oct. 22, 2024

Asked how they could tell that the bacteria and other organisms were thriving, he said “they’re there. They’re alive and... if they weren’t... they’d have a different appearance...”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 25, 2024

If Monte Verde is correct, as most believe, people were thriving from Alaska to Chile while much of northern Europe was still empty of mankind and its works.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann