Sentence examples for had thrived on from inspiring English sources
In an absurd defence against two Wall Street corporate raiders (who glower with splendid 1980s menace from one of the book's illustrations), Sotheby's, an institution that had thrived on flogging the contents of English ancestral homes to Americans, was cast as a glorious part of the national heritage.
For generations, Mad Men had thrived on widespread trust that their jingles and slogans altered consumers' behavior.
For more than four centuries Western music had thrived on harmonic development, and here is was – gone!
Richard Wallace, the editor of The Daily Mirror, said in his eulogy that Mr. Whitaker "was a true Fleet Street legend" — and that he had thrived on it.
This has hurt the photo finishers who had thrived on the double-print specials that were bundled with a developed roll of silver-halide film.
Relocation posed a particular problem for independent retailers like Minas Polychronakis, whose shoe-repair store had thrived on the trade center's perpetual tide of shoppers.
