7 sentences with 'flourishing'
Example sentences and phrases with the word flourishing and other words derived from it.
• « For Solon, it was a flourishing civilisation, a great connoisseur of science and the arts, ruled by ten kings, direct descendants of Poseidon, the god of the sea and the deep. »
• « The Hittite empire expanded rapidly on the basis of a flourishing Bronze Age economy, expanding from Anatolia to conquer territory in Mesopotamia, Syria and Canaan, eventually clashing with the New Kingdom of Egypt. »
• « The combination of flourishing trade and high taxes generated enormous wealth for the king and court and, among other things, led to the construction of remarkable works of monumental architecture to decorate their capital. »
• « The flourishing of Renaissance art and learning was a consequence of this very specific use of wealth: mercantile and banking riches were translated into social and political status through art, architecture and scholarship. »
• « By the mid-15th century, a "Northern Renaissance" of painters was flourishing in parts of northern Europe, particularly in the Low Countries (i.e. the areas that would later become Belgium and the Netherlands). »
• « Amidst the misery of working-class life, or in terms of rising rates of drug use and alcoholism, many people came to fear that certain destructive traits were not only flourishing in Europe, but were being transmitted. »
• « For a brief period, there was another flourishing of literary and artistic experimentation comparable to that of the early 1920s. »