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How to use the word flourish in a Sentence?

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Spirited debate and the free expression of ideas cannot flourish in an atmosphere of turmoil and instability, what is at stake is the expectation that any member of this body, whoever that might be, has a duty to strive to maintain decorum so that the people’s work, the work of all Montanans, can be accomplished.

David Bedey

Found on CNN
11 months ago

Beware the ease of blaming Chauvin alone. While he is a blunt instrument of police brutality and racism, he could never flourish in a police agency that lived up to its mission statement.

Bob Bennett

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I hope the photos will lead people into the wonderful worlds of these iconic species. Then, perhaps, other people will become involved in helping to create a world where wildlife can flourish for future generations to enjoy.

Jane Goodall

Found on CNN
1 year ago

For economy is not just numbers and charts, But the beating heart of human hearts, A chance for progress, a chance for all, To rise and flourish, standing tall.

Oscar Auliq-Ice

added by Auliq-Ice
1 year ago

It provides a way for religiously diverse people to hold together and to flourish.

John Roberts

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Eureka Springs on June 21 was also during this time that the LGBT community began to publicly flourish here, both culturally and in business.

Jeff Danos

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We suspect that sense of connection to non-parental adults probably adds to the likelihood that teen will flourish.

Robert Whitaker

Found on CNN
1 year ago

[W]e are witness yet again to the unrelenting anti-LGBTQ crusade being waged by self-described Christian fundamentalist legal groups aiming to chip away at the hard-won gains of LGBTQ people by carving out swaths of territory where discrimination can flourish, the constitutional protections for religious freedom and free speech were never intended as weapons of discrimination for those doing business with the general public.

Jennifer Pizer

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

These escalating home values were no doubt beneficial to homeowners and home sellers, however, as these markets flourish, middle-income wage earners face increasingly difficult affordability issues and are regrettably being priced out of the home-buying process.

Lawrence Yun

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I'm fascinated by longevity and its perseverance, by the idea of forever in a world where most things go away quickly. That legacy justifies the work and time spent developing anything significant. That in and of itself must be a key source of motivation for the art to exist and flourish beyond my lifetime. Also, the work does not necessitate my presence in any way. It's self-sufficient in that regard, and it completes the task at hand.

Adamo Macri

added by anonymous
2 years ago

This is all based on a false narrative that somehow American law enforcement is dangerous to the community. And you know, this is something that law enforcement have been fighting for a long time, i think now that's been proven as we see, you know, the Defund the Police movement has done nothing but help violent crime flourish.

Betsy Brantner Smith

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

When the dinosaurs went extinct, access to different foods and environments enabled mammals to flourish and diversify rapidly in their tooth anatomy and evolve larger body size, they clearly took advantage of this opportunity, as we can see from the radiation of new mammal species that took place in a relatively short amount of time following the mass extinction.

Madelaine Atteberry

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It is not particularly good news for infrastructure companies, and other business sectors, such as travel and food, which flourish when people work from offices.

Aditya Mishra

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Give me a good pandemic, honey, and I flourish.

Leslie Jordan

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The practice of electing not only teacher union members but retired superintendents and family members to school boards is becoming a common practice in Illinois, and it presents a very high conflict of interest in board decisions and negotiations. Not only does it encourage above-normal pay increases and benefits. It allows corruption and nepotism to flourish.

Lennie Jarratt

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The combination of dry fuels and tropical storm force winds could lead to downed trees and power lines, thus any ignition of new fires would flourish and rapidly expand under these conditions.

Pedram Javaheri

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The brand — and the heritage that the brand has — it's really impossible to replicate that, somebody can't set up a new venture tomorrow and do what they can do. It's not sort of possible to go back in time and get Mao Zedong to be interested in your drink. It's not possible to sort of be located in the town where they make their products. So I think they have a strong built-in story that allows them to flourish.

Ben Cavender

Found on CNN
3 years ago

He was very strict but wanted us to flourish, he wanted us to do our best.

Theresa Jones

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The government and police created a very ripe environment for conspiracy theories to flourish in.

Antony Dapiran

Found on CNN
3 years ago

As a lifelong fan of fantasy, I am beyond excited to tell the story' The Witcher : Blood Origin.' A question has been burning in my mind ever since I first read The Witcher books -- What was the Elven world really like before the cataclysmic arrival of the humans ? i've always been fascinated by the rise and fall of civilizations, how science, discovery, and culture flourish right before that fall. How vast swathes of knowledge are lost forever in such a short time, often compounded by colonization and a rewriting of history. Leaving only fragments of a civilization's true story behind.

The Witcher

Found on CNN
3 years ago

'60 Minutes' created the atmosphere that allowed us to flourish as a competing newsmagazine.

Hugh Downs

Found on CNN
3 years ago

(The WNBA's) recent CBA didn't happen overnight. This was over 20 years in the making and I greatly commend the players for building an environment (in which) women professional athletes can actually flourish.

Coyne Schofield

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Ramona enters with a flourish.

Jennifer Lopez

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The parallel market will flourish more, you will have higher inflation.

Marwan Mikhael

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

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