(n.) To be in any state, or pass through any experience, good or bad; to be attended with any circummstances or train of events, fortunate or unfortunate; as, he fared well, or ill.
(n.) To be treated or entertained at table, or with bodily or social comforts; to live.
(n.) To happen well, or ill; -- used impersonally; as, we shall see how it will fare with him.
(n.) To behave; to conduct one's self.
(v.) A journey; a passage.
(v.) The price of passage or going; the sum paid or due for conveying a person by land or water; as, the fare for crossing a river; the fare in a coach or by railway.
(v.) Ado; bustle; business.
(v.) Condition or state of things; fortune; hap; cheer.
(v.) Food; provisions for the table; entertainment; as, coarse fare; delicious fare.
(v.) The person or persons conveyed in a vehicle; as, a full fare of passengers.
(v.) The catch of fish on a fishing vessel.
Example Sentences:
(1) Head chef Christopher Gould (a UK Masterchef quarter-finalist) puts his own stamp on traditional Spanish fare with the likes of mushroom-and-truffle croquettes and suckling Málaga goat with couscous.
(2) The female survival figures were better than the male, and older patients fared far worse then younger ones.
(3) One problem is that it seems fares are going up several times a year.
(4) Yet it appears that younger patients fared better than older ones.
(5) Mary Creagh, the shadow transport secretary, said: "Over the last three years David Cameron has failed to stand up for working people, allowing train companies to hit passengers with inflation-busting fare rises of up to 9%.
(6) We’re meant to get into a choreographed huff about train fares.
(7) Train companies are making passengers pay disproportionate penalties for having the wrong ticket and criminalising people who have no intention of dodging fares, a government watchdog has warned.
(8) But many customers have been impressed by the speed of the technology and cheapness of the fares, and the company’s valuation continues to rise.
(9) Those patients who were treated seemed to fare better than those not treated.
(10) "The soaring cost of air travel will ultimately be a small factor in increased rail fares, as the ONS said plane tickets pushed the inflation index higher.
(11) Anthony Smith, Passenger Focus chief executive, said: "These fare increases were being sought by a company that was in a very different financial position.
(12) This week, East Midlands Trains more than doubled the cost of some peak-time trains to London, arguing those fares were too cheap.
(13) A survey of radiologic technologists in North Carolina shows that, in general, technologists fare better economically when working in hospitals than in radiologists' offices.
(14) The patients on active drug fared no better than those on placebo.
(15) Buy carnet tickets Carnets were introduced by First Capital Connect to offer slightly lower fares to those who travel into London two or three times a week, but not enough to make it cost-effective to buy a season ticket.
(16) For those making an early getaway, air fares were up by 7% and boat journeys went up 5.2%.
(17) Val Shawcross, Labour's transport spokeswoman on the London assembly, said the anticipated loss of revenue almost matched the £60m the mayor, who chairs Transport for London, had raised by increasing bus fares in the capital.
(18) In Spain the government is taking the drastic step of cutting speed limits on motorways and cutting train fares , as the unrest in Libya threatens the country's oil supplies.
(19) Gene frequencies were compared with previous data and all European populations studied so fare agreed with the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium.
(20) He says he missed the appointment because he did not have enough money for the bus fare.
Flourish
Definition:
(v. i.) To grow luxuriantly; to increase and enlarge, as a healthy growing plant; a thrive.
(v. i.) To be prosperous; to increase in wealth, honor, comfort, happiness, or whatever is desirable; to thrive; to be prominent and influental; specifically, of authors, painters, etc., to be in a state of activity or production.
(v. i.) To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions; to be flowery.
(v. i.) To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion.
(v. i.) To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.
(v. i.) To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude.
(v. i.) To boast; to vaunt; to brag.
(v. t.) To adorn with flowers orbeautiful figures, either natural or artificial; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish.
(v. t.) To embellish with the flowers of diction; to adorn with rhetorical figures; to grace with ostentatious eloquence; to set off with a parade of words.
(v. t.) To move in bold or irregular figures; to swing about in circles or vibrations by way of show or triumph; to brandish.
(v. t.) To develop; to make thrive; to expand.
(n.) A flourishing condition; prosperity; vigor.
(n.) Decoration; ornament; beauty.
(n.) Something made or performed in a fanciful, wanton, or vaunting manner, by way of ostentation, to excite admiration, etc.; ostentatious embellishment; ambitious copiousness or amplification; parade of words and figures; show; as, a flourish of rhetoric or of wit.
(n.) A fanciful stroke of the pen or graver; a merely decorative figure.
(n.) A fantastic or decorative musical passage; a strain of triumph or bravado, not forming part of a regular musical composition; a cal; a fanfare.
(n.) The waving of a weapon or other thing; a brandishing; as, the flourish of a sword.
Example Sentences:
(1) Behind her balcony, decorated with a flourishing pothos plant and a monarch butterfly chrysalis tied to a succulent with dental floss, sits the university’s power plant.
(2) Percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage (PTBD) was conceptualized more than 35 years ago, but its clinical application only flourished in the past 10 years after a number of technical refinements.
(3) For creativity to flourish, schools have to feel free to innovate without the constant fear of being penalised for not keeping with the programme.
(4) Everton ended with 10 men after Seamus Coleman limped off with all three substitutes deployed but there was no late flourish from a visiting team who, with Fernando replacing Kevin De Bruyne after the Irish defender’s departure, appeared content to settle for 1-2.
(5) Let's stay together Modern love places more value on how an individual can flourish in relationships, according to a 2013 study in the Journal of Communication , and thus Generation Y have a different romantic dynamic than their parents.
(6) After a hiatus, Smith is back with a flourish for her genre-bending new novel How to be Both , and David Mitchell has been longlisted for a third time, for The Bone Clocks .
(7) A successful economy and a healthy, creative, open and vibrant democratic society depend on a flourishing creative sector,” Corbyn said.
(8) The lessons from successful, modern economies is that the state has to be active in supporting, promoting, and demanding innovation in order to flourish.
(9) The contrast between these two worlds – one legal and flourishing, the other illegal and stubbornly disregarding of state lines – can seem baffling, yet it may have profound consequences for whether this unique experiment spreads.
(10) They opened it with a flourish to reveal a packet of Trill bird seed.
(11) The prospect of that tap being turned off has already seen capital pouring out of emerging markets and currencies, potentially exposing underlying weaknesses in economies that have been flourishing on a ready supply of cheap credit.
(12) The second-best team in the Bundesliga were inhibited by Klopp’s return to the Westfalenstadion last week but initially would flourish at Anfield – another Tuchel prediction.
(13) The arts will flourish, teachers will be admired and respected, and in charge of their own profession again.
(14) Unless comprehensive studies are set up to review past evidence and carry out lifespan studies of those exposed, speculation will flourish.
(15) Not only did erections survive unscathed, but sexual harassment continued to flourish.
(16) "Our proposals remain unchanged and will create an open standards-based internet-connected TV environment within which competition and innovation can flourish.
(17) We will celebrate that the centre is still in existence, is still flourishing and is probably one of the most successful CILs in the country.” Without the momentum created by the independent living movement, he adds, broader policy initiatives in social care, such as personalisation and co-production – involving users of services as partners in making policy and designing services – would never have happened.
(18) Larson said misconceptions about Tubman had flourished in part because she was a “malleable icon”.
(19) The house flourished but the marriage was bitterly unhappy and ended in divorce.
(20) Ahrendts' exit may also be delayed as she helps put the final flourishes to Burberry's plan to take back its Japanese licence in-house when it comes up for renewal next year.