a showy gesture; "she entered with a great flourish"
Used in a Sentence
flourish
How to use flourish in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for flourish.
Editorial note
Somehow culture was able to flourish without ads for thousands of years.
Examples11
Definitions8
Parts of speech2
Quick take
a showy gesture; "she entered with a great flourish"
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of flourish gathered in one view.
an ornamental embellishment in writing
a display of ornamental speech or language
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for flourish.
noun
a showy gesture; "she entered with a great flourish"
noun
an ornamental embellishment in writing
noun
a display of ornamental speech or language
noun
the act of waving
See also: brandish
noun
(music) a short lively tune played on brass instruments; "he entered to a flourish of trumpets"; "her arrival was greeted with a rousing fanfare"
verb
grow vigorously; "The deer population in this town is thriving"; "business is booming"
verb
make steady progress; be at the high point in one's career or reach a high point in historical significance or importance; "The new student is thriving"
verb
move or swing back and forth; "She waved her gun"
Example sentences
Somehow culture was able to flourish without ads for thousands of years.
I suspect that for a place to flourish like Silicon Valley, it needs a law that protects self bootstrapping startups.
That's not the kind of environment where "reasoned and rational discussion" are really going to flourish.
And the one genuinely messed-up thing he's done are his media laws, which make it hard for any large independent media companies to flourish.
However, Twitter grew because it offered this liberal, API-driven architecture that allowed tools to flourish and whatnot.
Those systems specifically flourish by protecting the weak from the powerful, the minority from the majority.
From 100k feet, Facebook's adoption of Thrift, and Thrift's tradition of supporting polyglot languages, means that a lot of "niche" languages can flourish within the larger production ecosystem.
I appreciate you asking for user response, and I wish you all the best in setting site defaults that build a civil, thoughtful informative community on HN that helps innovation flourish.
The last line sums up most of what I disliked about this piece: "where only big ideas flourish and school's out for everybody".Safer tries to suggest that Thiel is advocating against college for everybody, or any field.
This secrecy erodes bargaining power and has allowed a small industry of profit-taking middlemen to flourish: joint implant purchasing consultants, implant billing companies, joint brokers.
But just as decades of Windows being just unimaginably shitty didn't knock Microsoft off its PC perch, even as alternatives to the iPhone flourish, Apple keeps a strong lead because of natural inertial and platform lock-in forces.
Frequently asked questions
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How do you use flourish in a sentence?
Somehow culture was able to flourish without ads for thousands of years.
What does flourish mean?
a showy gesture; "she entered with a great flourish"
What part of speech is flourish?
flourish is commonly used as noun, verb.