Sample Sentences for
prosper
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    We believe in freedom from fear and in acquiring the skills to force the bad out of our world so that the good can prosper and thrive.  (source)
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    My relatives worked hard all the time but never seemed to prosper.  (source)
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    It was all well enough in the Southland, under the law of love and fellowship, to respect private property and personal feelings; but in the Northland, under the law of club and fang, whoso took such things into account was a fool, and in so far as he observed them he would fail to prosper.  (source)
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    Despite this, their own kingdoms have continued to prosper, but the old city of Wisdom has fallen into great disrepair, and there is no one to set things right.  (source)
    prosper = do well
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    They prospered; they had more daughters who joined them in peace; it was the beginning of wisdom.  (source)
    prospered = did well
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    The human beings did not hate Animal Farm any less now that it was prospering; indeed, they hated it more than ever.  (source)
    prospering = doing well
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    "The realm prospers from such events, my lord," Grand Maester Pycelle said.†  (source)
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    17:8 A gift is as a precious stone in the eyes of him that hath it: whithersoever it turneth, it prospereth.†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She prospereth" in older English, today we say "She prospers."
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    "Once he got into the university environment, I thought he would prosper, I really did!" his brother Mark says.  (source)
    prosper = do well
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    Nothing prospered but the flies who blackened their lord and made the spilt guts look like a heap of glistening coal.  (source)
    prospered = did well
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    Rex was not prospering quite as well as had been predicted; he remained on the fringe of the Government, prominent but vaguely suspect.  (source)
    prospering = having success
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    For a decade he has run a parfumerie on the rue Vauborel: a straggling business that prospers only when the cod are being salted and the stones of the town itself begin to stink.†  (source)
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    37:7 Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.†  (source)
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