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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    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)
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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)
    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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