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How to use prosperity in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun

Prosperity means the condition of being prosperous: having good fortune and a fortune. Example: “The country reached a high level of prosperity in his first term.”

Examples of prosperity by meaning

nounThe condition of being prosperous: having good fortune and a fortune.

  • “Eating meat means prosperity in the coming year,” the roastery wrote on Weibo on February 5, days before the Lunar New Year began.2024 February 20, Jessie Yeung and Hassan Tayir, “Pork flavored coffee is Starbucks’ newest China pitch”, in CNN Business

More sentences with prosperity

  • The country reached a high level of prosperity in his first term.From the entry in
  • I hope someone makes a tik tok video of this for prosperity!2024 October 24, @umyaznemo, Twitter, archived from the original on 26 Jul 2025. From the entry Hezb
  • This is our vital mission to ensure opportunity and prosperity for all people and future generations.2022 September 6, Liz Truss, “Prime Minister Liz Truss’s statement”, in Gov.uk. From the entry deliver
  • On 'prosperity re-distribution', it ignores the prospect that businesses may relocate to be near HS2 stations.2020 May 6, Jim Steer, “Full Business Case offers fresh insight into HS2's prospects”, in RAIL, page 50. From the entry relocate
  • However, it happened that, as for King Seqnen-Re—life, prosperity, health!—he was Ruler—life, prosperity, health!—of the Southern City.2016, James B. Pritchard, Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament with Supplement, page 231. From the entry life, prosperity, health
  • Many—football, the steam engine and Worcestershire sauce, to take a random selection—have spread pleasure, goodwill and prosperity.2013 October 5, “The widening gyre”, in The Economist, volume 409, number 8856, London: The Economist Group, →ISSN, →OCLC. From the entry invention
  • As a result, decisions to clean up the environment are routinely—and inaccurately—described as hurtful to prosperity.2013, Al Gore, “Outgrowth”, in The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change, New York: Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 163–164. From the entry Guangzhou
  • Millions of Americans fell in love with the prosperity gospel and its new kind of preacher.2013, Kate Bowler, Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 5. From the entry megachurch
  • Prosperity has certainly come to Shaoshan, located in the south-central Hunan province.2013 December 27, “120th anniversary sees tourists flood birthplace of father of modern China”, in France 24, archived from the original…. From the entry Shaoshan
  • Many had never experienced the kind of prosperity common in China’s cities.2009 January 16, Andrew Jacobs, “A County in China Sees Its Fortunes in Tea Leaves Until a Bubble Bursts”, in The New York Times, →ISSN…. From the entry Menghai
  • In a very real sense, PC technology set the table for the prosperity of the nineties.2008, B. A. Marbue Brown, The Clinton Economic Boom, page 107. From the entry set the table
  • Hazardous and nuclear waste came to represent the downside of industrial prosperity.1998, Hal Rothman, Gerald W. Nash, Richard W. Etulain, The Greening of a Nation?:, page 136. From the entry downside
  • On the following day, the woman-folk worship Goddess Dhanalaxmi for prosperity.1980, T. Vedantam, J. K. Barthakur, Census of India, 1971: Series 2: Andhra Pradesh, India Office of the Registrar General, page 138. From the entry Dhanalaxmi
  • He and Segismunda enjoy happiness and prosperity and eventually take delight in great-grandparenthood.1968, Otis Howard Green, Spain and the Western tradition: The Castilian Mind in Literature from El Cid to Calderón, page 202. From the entry great-grandparenthood
  • He started away from the protection of agriculture on which Tory landowners depended for prosperity.1966, Owen Chadwick, The Victorian Church, volume 1, page 223. From the entry cornlaw
  • After the blight had disappeared, the plantations were re-established, and prosperity continued for years.1922, William H[arrison] Ukers, “Cultivation of the Coffee Plant”, in All About Coffee, New York, N.Y.: The Tea and Coffee Trade Journal…. From the entry blight
  • Yet the narrative that A.G.I. is just around the corner and will usher in “massive prosperity,” as Mr.2025 May 30, Karen Hao, “Silicon Valley Is at an Inflection Point”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 30 May 2025. From the entry AGI
  • Its streets are marked with swastika emblems—symbols of prosperity in Hinduism and Buddhism—indicating the presence of shamans available for consultation.2025 February 7, Andres Sanchez Braun, “Shamanic rituals, burgers, martial law: The bizarre crisis gripping South Korea”, in Hong Kong…. From the entry Ansan
  • In today's verse, we're given the secret to living a life marked by wisdom and blessed by prosperity.2020, Barbour Staff (compiler), Daily Wisdom for Women, page 24. From the entry bottom-line
  • The graph jags like a Toblerone, stabbing the heights in times of prosperity and the new-broom sweep of incoming governments.2007, Lynsey Hanley, Estates: an intimate history, page 99. From the entry Toblerone
  • The prosperity of the postwar years, the baby boom, and the birth of suburbia sent the demand for station wagons soaring.2005, Jim Hinckley, The Big Book of Car Culture: The Armchair Guide to Automotive Americana, page 184. From the entry station wagon
  • Further, Coventry's prosperity and rapid growth was threatening that it as well as Birmingham would require to overspill its boundaries.2002, Urlan Wannop, Regional Imperative: Regional Planning and Governance in Britain, page 93. From the entry overspill
  • The country was fat with peacetime prosperity, but lots of people were afflicted with a postwar funk called weltschmerz.2001 December, Susan Reifer, “Skiing is Good: Carry the Solitude and Peace of the Mountains with You”, in Rick Kahl, editor, Skiing…. From the entry weltschmerz
  • Such things as prosperity and pleasure are all that matter.2000, Peter Jeffery, “What is man?”, in Which Way to God?, Darlington, Durham; Webster, N.Y.: Evangelical Press, published 2005 (4th…. From the entry eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die
  • Balaam was swept away with admiration of the Israelite encampments and homes that were a picture of idyllic happiness and prosperity.1996, Macy Nulman, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Prayer, page 234. From the entry sweep away
  • She managed to flee the sorcerer who had attempted to zombify her and enjoyed relative prosperity in Jamaica.1994, A History of Literature in the Caribbean: Hispanic and Francophone Regions, Arnold, et al. From the entry zombify
  • There was thus a strong tendency to assume that obedience to God's commandments could conduce to prosperity and safety.1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century England, London…. From the entry conduce
  • These people are dedicated to the pursuit of prosperity," he said later, "and the price of prosperity is often moredom.1956, Leonard Mosley, Castlerosse. From the entry moredom
  • We cannot ballyhoo ourselves back to prosperity.1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fireside Chat (7 May). From the entry ballyhoo
  • He oozed prosperity from top hat to duotone shoes.1925, Life, page 21. From the entry duotone
  • The blow to the prosperity of Russian Manchuria and especially to that of Harbin was severe and immediate.1921, “Manchuria Since 1905”, in Economic History of Manchuria, Seoul, Chosen, →OCLC, page 73. From the entry Russian Manchuria
  • President Biden affirmed his priorities of protecting the American people’s security, prosperity, health, and way of life, and preserving a free and open Indo-Pacific.2021 February 10, “Readout of President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. Call with President Xi Jinping of China”, in White House, archived from the…. From the entry Indo-Pacific
  • It’s called “Tinkle Down Economics,” how prosperity gets passed on to the deserving, who should never look up during these troubled times.2018 November, Ed Spivey Jr., “Deep Breath...”, in Sojourners. From the entry tinkle-down
  • Boats shuttled to and fro, and the hawkings and peddlings of all sorts of wares helped to create an amazing scene of activity and prosperity.1982, Chinese Literature. From the entry hawking
  • The history of the Anglo-Indian Community in British-controlled India is one of many ups and downs, of vicissitudes and prosperity, of security and insecurity.1973, Noel Pitts Gist, Roy Dean Wright, Marginality and Identity, page 150. From the entry controlled
  • “Oh, well,” I consented sadly, “the garden will lose half of its charm, but such, I suppose, is my hostage to prosperity.”1929, Forest and Outdoors - Volume 25, page 408. From the entry hostage
  • I grudged him this happiness; for McMahon, who took the actual risk of starting it, had been broken just before prosperity began.1926, T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, New York: Anchor, published 1991, page 167. From the entry break
  • The inevitable deduction from the figures tabulated must be that the material prosperity of the people as a whole is making good progress.1903 March 25, G[opal] K[rishna] Gokhale, quoting Edward FitzGerald Law, “Budget Speech, 1903”, in Speeches of the Honourable Mr. G. K.…. From the entry tabulate
  • As he said in "I Have a Dream," the Negro "lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity."2002, Nathan W. Schlueter, quoting Martin Luther King, Jr., I Have a Dream, 1963, speech, quoted in One Dream Or Two?: Justice in America…. From the entry midst

Meaning of prosperity

  1. noun The condition of being prosperous: having good fortune and a fortune.

Full definition of prosperity

Questions about prosperity in a sentence

How do you use prosperity in a sentence?
Prosperity is used as a noun. For example: “The country reached a high level of prosperity in his first term.”
What is a short sentence with prosperity?
“We cannot ballyhoo ourselves back to prosperity.”
What does prosperity mean?
Prosperity means the condition of being prosperous: having good fortune and a fortune.

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