Sentence examples for so prosperous that from inspiring English sources

His bookmaking business had grown so prosperous that it seemed only a matter of time before he would be nabbed.

His father, the owner of a printing company, was so prosperous that he bought a Phaeton Studebaker with disc wheels in 1924.

For more than two centuries, its people had been so healthy and so prosperous that they towered above the rest of the world — about four inches above the Dutch, for example, for most of the nineteenth century.

During the Civil War he first served with Confederate regulars and then was a blockade runner in Texas, becoming so prosperous that he could live married in San Antonio for some 16 years at ease.

As a go-between who shepherded clients and their money to Bernard L. Madoff, Walter M. Noel became so prosperous that he was only too happy to show off his good fortune to the world.

At the end of the 19th century it was a thriving silver mining centre, home to 80,000 people, and so prosperous that Mexico's first stock exchange – the Bolsa de Valor – was established here to sell shares in the mines.

It's just a tragedy in a nation so prosperous as ours that these last four years have been so hard.

They are economic migrants of sorts from the former Yugoslavia, which was at one time so prosperous and Western that it attracted tourists from the rest of Eastern Europe, Prague included.

So prosperous, it seems, that the point of going to university is for young people to become a convenient new type of credit card to fund the baller lifestyles of rich creditors, taken in an increased portion of your monthly pay cheque for the rest of your life.

But over the years we've become so prosperous and we have developed technology that allows us to deliver war to other people, and it never falls on us.

Its far-ranging trade connections made it so prosperous in the 14th century that the English crown was pledged to its merchants as security for loans several times.