How to Use prosperous in a Sentence

prosperous

adjective
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  • The company had a prosperous year.
  • He predicted a prosperous future.
  • The Good News: Trust in the Lord that your next years will be healthy, prosperous, and filled with joy.
    — Corinne Sullivan, Woman's Day, 25 Jan. 2023
  • May God bless you, and bring you a safe, prosperous, and wise year to come.
    — Jim Geraghty, National Review, 28 Dec. 2023
  • The rich will be mostly based in one of 50 prosperous cities.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 26 July 2024
  • The family packs a ship and sails off to the more prosperous castle.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Mar. 2024
  • The East River, down to the Battery, had once formed the heart of one of the mightiest and most prosperous ports in the world.
    — New York Times, 2 Dec. 2021
  • May this Diwali mark the start of a happy and prosperous year for you.
    — Jamie Ballard, Woman's Day, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Tyre had a long and prosperous life in front of him that was cut short by this tragic event.
    — NBC News, 25 Apr. 2022
  • Huntsville has been named the nation’s fourth-most prosperous city by MyEListing.com.
    — Paul Gattis | Pgattis@al.com, al, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Gallup has asked adults which party would keep the country more prosperous since the 1950s.
    — Noah Bierman, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2023
  • By the end of the 1960s, the United States had become the most broadly prosperous country the world had ever known.
    — David Leonhardt, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2023
  • The last decade of the gold standard era, the 1960s, is still considered the most prosperous of the past century.
    — Nathan Lewis, Forbes, 10 July 2022
  • Yet many in Hong Kong regarded the 1997 handover as the end of a free and prosperous era in Hong Kong.
    — Yvonne Lau, Fortune, 13 Sep. 2022
  • Ethiopia went from being one of the most prosperous nations in Africa to the site of a brutal civil war.
    — Lauren Jackson, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2022
  • And with John Gibson in net, the next five seasons, at least, could be prosperous.
    — Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2021
  • The art of securing a prosperous future lies in your hands.
    — Anna Oakes, Quartz, 11 May 2023
  • It was founded in 2014 with the goal of creating a more prosperous Ukraine.
    — Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2022
  • Geeks and Nerds – at least in Huntsville -- are cool, successful and prosperous.
    — Paul Gattis | Pgattis@al.com, al, 24 Mar. 2022
  • Both seek to represent one of the most prosperous areas of the county.
    — Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 15 Sep. 2024
  • All this would spell a less free, less prosperous and more violent world.
    — Steve Forbes, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2021
  • Before the war, their family had led a prosperous life in Prague.
    — Bryan Marquard, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Mar. 2023
  • In the couple’s telling, life in the United States was prosperous, colorful, and full of promise.
    — Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2023
  • The stockpiles are used as firewood and also as a cultural code: the higher the stack, the more prosperous the household.
    — Chandrahas Choudhury, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 July 2024
  • The biggest federal-state fault line pits the more prosperous south against Mr. Modi’s support base in the north.
    — Hari Kumar, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2024
  • What is the key or first step to a freer, prosperous, and more harmonious society?
    — The Denver Post, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Initially, it was seen as a time for farmers to pray and thank the gods for their bountiful and prosperous year.
    — Michelle Tchea, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Sep. 2024
  • Governed by the prosperous and sensual planet Venus, you are known to charm the world with your magnetism.
    — Valerie Mesa, Peoplemag, 1 June 2024
  • Though his father was prosperous, the young boy decided to pave his own way — and join the military.
    — Angelica Stabile | Fox News, Fox News, 31 Dec. 2022
  • On Wednesday the Labour government set out its first budget, a brutal one filled with 40 billion pounds in tax hikes targeted mainly at small and medium-sized private businesses, the prosperous middle class, and the very wealthy.
    — Samantha Conti, WWD, 30 Oct. 2024

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