Sentence examples for it thrived on from inspiring English sources
Between wars it thrived on a plantation economy, exporting indigo, rice, and cotton.
Dawson City was a rowdy home for transient prospectors; it thrived on gambling, grifting, and prostitution.
The New York series had the adrenaline rush of "N.Y.P.D. Blue"; it thrived on speed and a gritty atmosphere.
It thrived on acquiring new drugs rather than inventing them, and generating big profits from raising prices on old, undervalued treatments.
"He learned to win early on, he liked it, thrived on it, and I think it's transcended to his 3-year-old year".
(The dodo, by comparison, was almost lucky. It thrived on the island of Mauritius until the late sixteenth century, when hungry Dutch sailors, along with introduced rats, dogs, and pigs, kicked off its decline).
In the St . Georges Hospital here, a mild-mannered bacterium most people carry without harming their health turned into a dangerous variant that not only resisted an antibiotic--it thrived on the drug, says a report in Saturday's issue of THospitalt.
People-smuggling is one step up from slave-trading, and it thrives on the soft verges of Europe.
It thrives on comment boards, on blogs.
In the west it thrives on immigrant-bashing.
"It thrives on a junk-food diet," said Ms. Landreneau.
