Vocabulary Word
Word: flourish
Definition: grow well; prosper; make sweeping gestures; wave; brandish; Ex. The trees flourished in the sun. N: showy movement or gesture; embellishment or ornamentation (esp. in handwriting)
Definition: grow well; prosper; make sweeping gestures; wave; brandish; Ex. The trees flourished in the sun. N: showy movement or gesture; embellishment or ornamentation (esp. in handwriting)
Sentences Containing 'flourish'
He did it with some flourish of ceremony, for a mail journey from London in winter was an achievement to congratulate an adventurous traveller upon.
The malarial mosquito and the typhoid fly flourish in unhygienic quarters, and the only way to guard against their dangers is to allow them neither food nor breeding place.
First, they were greeted by the natives of this locality as Marquette had before been greeted by them with the booming of the war drum and the flourish of arms.
Most of the world has now outlived good part of these harms, though by no means all of them; but in our South they flourish pretty forcefully still.
England was noted for the manufacture of fine cloths made of Spanish wool, more than a century before any of those which now flourish in the places above mentioned were fit for foreign sale.
They may flourish amidst the ruin of their country, and begin to decay upon the return of its prosperity.
Commerce and manufactures, in short, can seldom flourish in any state, in which there is not a certain degree of confidence in the justice of government.
Is there any more intelligible proposition than to affirm, that all the trees will flourish in December and January, and decay in May and June?
These principles may flourish and triumph in the schools; where it is, indeed, difficult, if not impossible, to refute them.
Yet it was evident that if I was to flourish matches with my hands I should have to abandon my firewood; so, rather reluctantly, I put it down.
'When she comes to her mother's age,' said Mrs. Markleham, with a flourish of her fan, 'then it'll be another thing.
Mr. Micawber, with a random but expressive flourish of his knife, signified that these performances might be expected to take place after he was no more; then resumed his peeling with a desperate air.
The triumphant flourish with which Mr. Micawber delivered himself of these words, had a powerful effect in alarming the mother; who cried out, in much agitation: 'Ury, Ury!
With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship.
All that is made such a flourish of in the old South Sea Voyages, those things were but the life-time commonplaces of our heroic Nantucketers.
With memories like these in him, and, moreover, given to a certain superstitiousness, as has been said; the courage of this Starbuck which could, nevertheless, still flourish, must indeed have been extreme.
The tradition of royal portrait painting in Scotland was probably disrupted by the minorities and regencies it underwent for much of the sixteenth century, but began to flourish after the Reformation.
This was the beginning of 3M’s diversification into all manner of marketplaces and helped them to flourish in spite of the Great Depression.
LeFranc blamed the clergy for permitting such beliefs to flourish.
The school began to flourish, boasting a rising student population, which brought higher tuition and more State money to be used towards the school.
The school continued to flourish and thrive, gaining more and more students every session.
Adapting to their new environment, these "seaworms" quickly flourish, eventually producing a highly-concentrated form of spice, dubbed "ultraspice."
When the Elite Canada's head scout, Elmer Olsen, started his own agency, Werbowy followed and her career began to flourish.
The passage of the Mann Act forced the hand of local governments who had allowed this illegal practice to flourish for decades.
It prefers a rich moist soil and the borders of swamps, but will flourish on rocky hillsides.
Chris has had pieces written for him including Simon Wills' "Lucifer" and "Bujole" and Eric Crees' "Flourish".
Right through the 1930s and 1940s Gaultier Football Club continued to flourish, even though it failed to get into the ultimate honours arena.
Native rock oysters are plentiful on the rocky shores, and the introduced Pacific oysters flourish lower in the intertidal zone.
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Despite these changes, U.S. Repeating Arms did not flourish, declaring bankruptcy in 1989.
Though it was created by illiterate communities and passed down orally from one generation to another it tends to flourish Bengali literature.
Something guttural. It had to begin with the letter 'T' and end with a flourish.
The Chill ownership created a brand new winter league in 2010, the California Winter League, to offer more opportunities for aspiring players to flourish.
Since the handover, the Hong Kong Sevens continue to flourish, and there is increasing interest in the game within Mainland China as well.
Old growth Ponderosa pines flourish on Pine Bench, near the lower end of Boulder Creek Wilderness.
Suitable climatic conditions have allowed winter sports to flourish in the region, as exemplified by the Winter Olympics in 1984 that were celebrated in Sarajevo.
"A. salmonicida" isolates flourish when grown on blood agar or tyrosine.
The concept of higher dimensional spaces was starting to flourish.
However, I-Kuan Tao started to flourish in China during the leadership of Zhang Tianran.
(Structural Impediment Initiative) trade talks, the practice was never fully stamped out and continued to flourish.
These historical impacts of climate change can improve human life and cause societies to flourish, or can be instrumental in civilization's societal collapse.
official seal the cross means the flourish the three star means virtue arts and science
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During the next two decades, the company continued to flourish.
But peacefulness, equality, and kindness are just as biological—and we may see their influence increase if we can create social structures that permit them to flourish."
However, it can flourish in the North as well, and accordingly its original range is somewhat in doubt.
Mountain ash joins the forest. The summit's altitude is too low, even at its latitude, for the boreal forest found at higher elevations in the Adirondacks to flourish.
The paper mulberry did not flourish and a substitute material was found in the native flax.
Therefore, the Senior High School Entrance Examination has led to a series of "industry of the Senior High School Entrance Examination" (中考产业) to flourish.
The advantage is take educational counseling books and reference book to flourish.
However the towns which Vikings had founded continued to flourish, and trade became an important part of the Irish economy.
Relocating to New York in 2002, allowed her independent film experience to flourish.