Sentence examples for once flourishing from inspiring English sources

Buddhism, once flourishing here, had given way to Islam.

Worst hit was Pisco, a once flourishing port where almost nothing was left standing.

The once flourishing gold market is now blocked with barbed wire and choked with weeds and garbage.

Talk story about Street & Smith, publishers of pulp magazines, who this month put to sleep the last of its once flourishing stable of pulps.

The countryside, once flourishing despite poor soil, and the supplier of a fifth of Germany's wheat, lies undrained and neglected after decades of collectivization.

But the woeful courtroom coda to his once flourishing political career can only invite a further slide toward wariness and cynicism for American voters.

The once-flourishing Turkish-Israeli relationship has been eroding for some time.

That nightmare was the last straw for Iraq's once-flourishing Jewish community.

These have been troubled times for the once-flourishing embroidery business in Hudson and Bergen Counties.

Now, a half-century later, Wenner and his son have sold their once-flourishing business.

Kosovo's ancient Christian Orthodox monasteries are now almost the only reminder of a once-flourishing non-Albanian population.