Sample Sentences for
flourish
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(editor-reviewed)

flourish as in:  the business is flourishing

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The children are flourishing.
flourishing = growing or developing well
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    The business flourished from day one.
    flourished = grew or developed well
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    The garden flourishes in the spring.
    flourishes = grows or develops well
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    And, eventually, man will nourish your sands, where the game will once again flourish.  (source)
    flourish = thrive (grow or develop well)
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    A century after Franklin's death, the eminent explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson pointed out that the English explorer had never taken the trouble to learn the survival skills practiced by the Indians and the Eskimos, peoples who had managed to flourish "for generations, bringing up their children and taking care of their aged" in the same harsh country that killed Franklin.  (source)
    flourish = thrive (grow or develop well)
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    many flourishing potted plants  (source)
    flourishing = thriving (growing well)
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    They had flourished as the dominant life form on the planet in the Jurassic, 190 million years ago.  (source)
    flourished = thrived (did well)
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    She flourishes her brilliant fingernails and breaks into childlike laughter.†  (source)
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    IN May when every lusty heart flourisheth and bourgeoneth, for as the season is lusty to behold and comfortable, so man and woman rejoice and gladden of summer coming with his fresh flowers: for winter with his rough winds and blasts causeth a lusty man and woman to cower and sit fast by the fire.†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She flourisheth" in older English, today we say "She flourishes."
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    It flourish'd long, In pride of wealth and warlike people strong, Till curs'd Mezentius, in a fatal hour, Assum'd the crown, with arbitrary pow'r.†  (source)
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    Frost shall freeze, and fire melt wood; the earth shall give fruit, and ice shall bridge dark water, make roofs, mysteriously lock earth's flourishings; but the fetters of frost shall also fall, fair weather return, and the reaching sun restore the restless sea......We wait.†  (source)
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    "La sakes, now, does it?" said Uncle Tom, looking with a respectful, admiring air, as his young teacher flourishingly scrawled q's and g's innumerable for his edification; and then, taking the pencil in his big, heavy fingers, he patiently recommenced.†  (source)
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    Great place for young life to flourish.  (source)
    flourish = grow or develop well
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    Life was rich, full, and flourishing.  (source)
    flourishing = growing or developing well
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flourish as in:  dismissed them with a flourish

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She entered with a great flourish.
flourish = showy gesture
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    He bowed with a flourish.
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    With as much flourish as he could manage, he wrote: Your Obedient Son, Prince Horace  (source)
    flourish = showy manner
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    Seized with an immediate desire to reveal himself, Harry pulled off the cloak with a flourish.  (source)
    flourish = a showy gesture
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    The music ends with a flourish.  (source)
    flourish = a showy or ornamented manner
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    Mr. Kimberley flourished his cane at the silent children.  (source)
    flourished = waved (or made a showy gesture with)
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    the bloated curves and flourishes  (source)
    flourishes = showy gestures (ornamental flowing curves)
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    He swung his arm out with a flourish.  (source)
    flourish = a showy gesture
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    The heavy charms on Sydelle Pulaski's bracelet clinked and clunked as she raised a full fork and flourished it in a practiced ritual before aiming it at her open mouth.  (source)
    flourished = waved (or made a showy gesture with)
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    All the pedestrians in Greenpoint were bundled up in their cold-weather finery, red autumnal plaids and flourishes of thick, lustrous flannel, even though it was summer.  (source)
    flourishes = showy or decorative touches
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    He would return with a flourish, and regain the seven wasted years.  (source)
    flourish = showy manner
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    He flourished a white calling card.  (source)
    flourished = used a wave or showy gesture to produce
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    Old Montague is come, And flourishes his blade in spite of me.  (source)
    flourishes = waves in a showy way
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    I thought it must be some kind of culminating prank, the senior class leaving Devon with a flourish.  (source)
    flourish = showy gesture
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meaning too rare to warrant focus

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    [A crowd of people in the street leading to the Capitol, among them Artemidorus and the Soothsayer. Flourish. Enter Caesar, Brutus, ..., and others.]  (source)
    Flourish = fanfare played by trumpets to announce the entry or exit of royalty
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    [Flourish and shout.]  (source)
    Flourish = fanfare played by trumpets or other horns to announce the entry or exit of royalty
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    [Shout. Flourish.]  (source)
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