What's the difference between flourishing and roaring?

Flourishing


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flourish

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.

Roaring


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vvb. n.) of Roar
  • (n.) A loud, deep, prolonged sound, as of a large beast, or of a person in distress, anger, mirth, etc., or of a noisy congregation.
  • (n.) An affection of the windpipe of a horse, causing a loud, peculiar noise in breathing under exertion; the making of the noise so caused. See Roar, v. i., 5.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When, against Real Madrid, Nani was sent off, Ferguson, jaws agape, interrupting his incessant mastication, roared from the bench, uprooting his assistant and marched to the touchline.
  • (2) Far from being depressed, the audience turned into a heaving mass of furious geeks, who roared their anger and vowed that they would not rest until they had brought down the rotten system The "skeptic movement" (always spelt with "k" by the way, to emphasise their distinctiveness) had come to Singh's aid.
  • (3) As Llewellyn and others reached for their briefcases Ashdown roared that nobody was going anywhere.
  • (4) A spine-tingling roar rolled off the Kop after an eighth consecutive league win lifted Liverpool above Manchester City and Chelsea with perfect timing.
  • (5) As Mo Farah charged down the home straight, 80,000 people roaring him on to his second gold medal of these Games, his eyes wide, teeth bared, the whole stadium knew they were witnessing history in the making.
  • (6) Before things get out of hand, the trophy is presented to Steven Gerrard, who hoists it skywards with a loud roar.
  • (7) I thought it was like [Joe] DiMaggio’s hit streak.” The arena was covered in blue and gold and roaring for the home team, cheers that were even louder for each of Curry’s 10 three-pointers.
  • (8) One turns up for bums, rampant historical misrepresentation and a man in a wig roaring "spiritus sanctus" in a 13th-century CGI inferno.
  • (9) Shortly afterwards normal service was very briefly resumed when, with Cardiff overcommitted to attack, a customary roar greeted Newcastle's third goal, a header from the popular, Geordie-reared substitute Steven Taylor.
  • (10) By day, the whooshing of skis and scratching of poles and the roar of wind past their ears dominate the explorers' world.
  • (11) Xinhua, Beijing’s official news service, said Micius, a 600kg satellite that is nicknamed after an ancient Chinese philosopher, “roared into the dark sky” over the Gobi desert at 1.40am local time on Tuesday, carried by a Long March-2D rocket.
  • (12) Mexican striker Matias Vuoso and Chile midfielder Arturo Vidal both scored twice in a game that roared from end to end and never let up in intensity.
  • (13) Inside, vendors sold balloons, candyfloss and posters of Sisi with Nasser, Sisi with a roaring lion, Sisi with his trademark sunglasses.
  • (14) A little roar went up, just for a moment, and then died away almost as quickly.
  • (15) He performed his debut show , Dicing with Dr Death, as part of the Edinburgh fringe comedy festival, described in its synopsis as “a rip-roaring ride through his 20 years working with life’s one certainty: death”.
  • (16) Stock markets roared ahead and sterling tumbled after the Bank of England and European Central Bank took unprecedented steps to quash investor fears that they were preparing to reduce monetary stimulus.
  • (17) Those fed Pb only developed pharyngeal and laryngeal paralysis ("roaring") whereas those fed Zn only and Pb and Zn together developed the same clinical syndrome which included swelling at the epiphyseal region of the long bones, stiffness and lameness.
  • (18) Analysis of official statistics by the Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change (Cresc) at Manchester University backs up Martin's hunch: London and the south-east have come roaring out of the crash, and now account for a greater share of growth than they did even during the boom.
  • (19) Price remembers a parliamentary Christmas party where Jo and the children raced through parliament, their faces painted as tigers as they roared at each other.
  • (20) The roar was equally loud when Victor Moses had the first shot two minutes in.