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successful
adjective as in favorable, profitable
Example Sentences
Many successful impact investors already follow this playbook.
I don’t know if these work from home or workout from home stocks will end up being as successful as these companies.
What are they passionate about, even when the world has titled them “successful.”
Truth be told, building a successful startup is a never-ending learning curve.
Sarah, the CEO of a successful SEO agency, gets introduced to the CEO of another successful ecommerce company through a common friend.
Although Edison is best known for the light bulb, those batteries eventually became the most commercially successful product of his later life.
After the successful completion of phase three trials, regulatory bodies in each country will need to review the available data before approving the vaccine for general use.
“If you follow the rules, then this can absolutely be successful,” says Brian Nichols.
The first rule of successful investing is “buy low, sell high.”
None of them turned out to be so successful by conventional standards.
Malaysian-based entrepreneur Tony Fernandes has turned AirAsia into the most successful low cost airline in southeast Asia.
Do those things," he said, "and you'll have half a chance of being successful.
Beyoncé has, for close to a decade now, been a deity in entertainment: untouchable, successful, divine.
Just how many fake nodes would be needed in order to pull off a successful Sybil attack against Tor is not known.
But even interrogating successful proposals leads to unsatisfactory reasoning.
For starters, that religious-themed movies are difficult to make and even more difficult to make successful.
A successful trend-maker might be able to steer a conversation, but virality remains extremely difficult to predict.
After a successful summer working alongside R, he officially offered her the reigns of La Domaine.
And largely considered to have been, to those who can still remember, a successful and reasonably popular one.
The best, or at least most successful, are bridging the gap between punk-rock DIY ethos and social-media savvy.
Why was a master photographer recruited to work with one of the most successful liquor brands on the planet?
Hollywood has developed a habit of relying on what worked best in the past, and 300 was hugely successful.
The successful World Cup bids of both Russia and Qatar have come under relentless scrutiny that has ultimately changed little.
Like many successful tailors, his attention to detail is exquisite.
I could have been much more successful had I given in but I never gave in.
Meanwhile, over at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, the Africa Division was celebrating the successful mission.
And a successful two-term Governor of a state where the balloting incompetence and idiocy is absolutely vital to the GOP.
And when you’re successful, you can say, ‘Hey, look at this!
Concerning argument, suffice it to say that, once started, no matter how terrible the cost, it was successful.
It just seems like the more successful something gets it, the more people need to understand it really quickly.
Then, if you gentlemen are successful here, and capture Fulton and Jefferson City, our brightest hopes will be fulfilled.
The result of this mission was eminently successful; a special treaty was drawn up and Spain sold Louisiana to France.
A small contingent of the members hurried off to applaud the successful comic opera of the hour.
According to the general verdict, she was equally successful in oils and water-colors.
Not only have its fundamental principles been fully vindicated but in most details the working of the measure has been successful.
It beats punching cows, though—that is, when a fellow discovers that he isn't a successful cowpuncher.
He had attained to position and wealth and, which successful men sometimes are not, was quite unspoiled.
Up to this period he had not been successful in accomplishing his great wish—the shooting of a lion.
At last two are successful, and the monster, hardly able to breathe, stands quiet and still.
But wise and successful as were his methods, the glory of his rule was darkened by his harshness and greed.
Our race does not possess successful men in such a number that we can be oblivious to apparent success as on a young man's part.
The successful crossing of the Danube was soon followed by the decisive battle of Austerlitz.
Fine soldier as he was, he lacked the essentials of the successful general—imagination and moral courage.
Perhaps vanity was wounded there—that his successful rival woke contempt in her was unendurable.
This was a very successful speculation, and in a few weeks your father realized about 2500l.
Last letter said been up to the diggings; very successful; coming home with his money, mentioned ship he meant to sail in.
Individual enterprise is active in the attempt, and Government has wisely offered a reward to successful speculators.
Thereupon began a procedure identical to that which had characterized the outset of every successful case of the Chief Inspector.
Apart from the general charge of being successful—whatever that amounts to—you accuse me of two things.
This led to the discovery that the young urchin had been on a most successful forage for a dinner that morning.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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