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 family packs a ship and sails off to the more prosperous castle.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • The art of securing a prosperous future lies in your hands.
    — Anna Oakes, Quartz, 11 May 2023
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • Covert was a home to free and prosperous black men and women at a time when their country’s policies were designed to oppress them.
    — William A. Schambra and Bob Woodson, WSJ, 6 Feb. 2023
  • That front-page headline was from the Cleveland Press, once among the nation’s most prosperous papers, now long out of business.
    — Bob Greene, WSJ, 8 Nov. 2022
  • Once made prosperous by its hundreds of miles of rich farmland, today Sharkey County is one of the poorest in the country.
    — Emmanuel Felton, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2023
  • In more prosperous times, China’s spending spree in Africa saw highways and dams spring up in many African countries.
    — David Pierson, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Aug. 2023
  • The price of success As a prosperous den mother, Henry ran into her share of challenges.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Louisville’s prosperous second half was a stark contrast from the first half, where the Cardinals only reached the end zone once and Plummer went 2-for-7 in the first quarter.
    — Alexis Cubit, The Courier-Journal, 2 Sep. 2023
  • America is the most prosperous nation the world's ever seen.
    — CBS News, 11 Dec. 2022
  • Coal mining and logging once made this place prosperous.
    — Sara Sidner, CNN, 25 Mar. 2023
  • For many voters, Mr. da Silva offered a return to a more prosperous past.
    — Samantha Pearson, WSJ, 31 Oct. 2022
  • The world is in turmoil, and the men alive today are reeling because most of them have only known the most peaceful and prosperous times in history.
    — Bymohamed El Aassar, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2023
  • In East Asia, for example, the shape of noodles represents a long life, while greens augur a prosperous year.
    — Christopher Kimball, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Jan. 2024
  • And both cities form the critical core of prosperous metro areas; so much hinges on their continuing to thrive.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2023
  • The world was safer and more prosperous under – under President Trump.
    — ABC News, 21 Jan. 2024
  • Gotz, the daughter of a prosperous bourgeois family, would be murdered at Auschwitz.
    — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2023
  • The experience of counties and of the city of Baltimore tells you that there is no more prosperous class of labor in the state of Maryland today than the free Black labor.
    — Anna Deavere Smith, The Atlantic, 13 Nov. 2023
  • The New York Times is among the world’s most financially prosperous newspapers.
    — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2022

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