Sentence examples for formerly thriving from inspiring English sources
"formerly thriving" is correct and can be used in written English
It is an adjective phrase that is often used to describe something that used to be prosperous but is no longer. For example, "The formerly thriving town had been reduced to a ghost town after the economic recession."
Watershed, Tue to Fri, watershed.co.uk The brainchild of Brooklyn artists Todd Chandler and Jeff Stark, Empire Drive-In is an installation paying homage to the formerly thriving US drive-in movie industry.
At a time when many regional theaters have struggled and often folded — the Pasadena Playhouse, American Musical Theater of San Jose and Madison Repertory Theater in Wisconsin are a few recent casualties — a formerly thriving house getting a second chance is a rare occurrence.
Mr. Sharrief Al Bey, 43, remembers two formerly thriving roller rinks that have followed disco into the Dumpster of pop culture history: the Rooftop at 155th Street, near the old Polo Grounds in Washington Heights, and the Bruckner on 149th Street in the South Bronx.
Conversely, formerly thriving manufacturing centers in the Midwest and nearby regions have seen dismal immigration in recent years; 2008 was no exception.
Photographer Esther Hessing and writer Sophieke Thurmer travelled to the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (the area worst affected by radiation) to visit the "Samosely" – the last generation of a formerly thriving community.
Photographer Esther Hessing and writer Sophieke Thurmer traveled to the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (the area worst affected by radiation) to visit the "Samosely"—the last generation of a formerly thriving community.
He writes in the spirit of earlier historians, like the 16th-century Florentine Francesco Guicciardini and the 19th-century Milanese intellectual Carlo Cattaneo, who believed that the Italian cities formerly thrived because of mutual competition.
However the loss of the incentive to grow and produce is the price that must be paid by societies that attempt to seriously ameliorate the inequitable conditions in which they formerly thrived.
The fertile soils of central Thailand are the heartland of Thai culture and one of the reasons that Siam, as the country was formerly known, thrived.
In the places where the communities and the municipalities worked together, often with a strong assist from businesses, the formerly dangerous neighborhoods thrived.
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