Sample sentences for PROSPEROUS

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Definition

successful or good — especially with regard to finances or wealth

prosperous = financially successful

prosperous = doing well materially

prosperous = well-off (indicating financial success)

prosperous = financially successful

May God grant you a long and prosperous life, my daughter.
Khaled Hosseini -- A Thousand Splendid Suns

prosperous = successful

Live, and be prosperous: and farewell, good fellow.
William Shakespeare -- Romeo and Juliet

prosperous = successful

The more prosperous families had coal sheds; the poorer ones left their coal in a pile out front.
Jeannette Walls -- The Glass Castle

prosperous = financially successful

So each spring he set forth with his army and each autumn he returned, and year by year the kingdom grew larger and more prosperous.
Norton Juster -- The Phantom Tollbooth

prosperous = successful

He stepped into a men's shop a few doors down and bought himself a new suit, a new shirt, a new tie, a new hat—everything he'd seen the most prosperous men along the street wearing.
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston & James D. Houston -- Farewell to Manzanar

prosperous = financially successful

Most of the characters that perform in this book still live, and are prosperous and happy.
Mark Twain -- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

prosperous = doing well

His father left, trailing the faint, unfamiliar, prosperous aroma of his cigar.
John Knowles -- A Separate Peace

prosperous = indicating financial success

The farm was more prosperous now, and better organised: it had even been enlarged by two fields which had been bought from Mr. Pilkington.
George Orwell -- Animal Farm

prosperous = successful

Is it any happiness or any comfort, to consider that we are our own? It may be thought so by the young and prosperous.
Aldous Huxley -- Brave New World

prosperous = successful

Rebellion is for prosperous islands, or else those so ground down they have no other choice.
Madeline Miller -- Circe

prosperous = successful

My uncle engaged afterwards in more prosperous undertakings: it appears he realised a fortune of twenty thousand pounds.
Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre

prosperous = financially successful

Related words: joy, gladness, feeling fortunate or prosperous.
Markus Zusak -- The Book Thief

prosperous = successful

prosperous = financially successful

His prosperous-looking belly that used to thrust out so pugnaciously and intimidate folks, sagged like a load suspended from his loins.
Zora Neale Hurston -- Their Eyes Were Watching God

prosperous = indicating wealth

He wanted him to be a prosperous man, having enough in his barn to feed the ancestors with regular sacrifices.
Chinua Achebe -- Things Fall Apart

prosperous = financially successful

Among those who are at all his equals in consequence, he is a very different man from what he is to the less prosperous.
Jane Austen -- Pride and Prejudice

prosperous = wealthy

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