Sentence example with the word 'perish'

perish

age, be wiped out, come to nothing, dematerialize, disperse, expire, go, melt away, peg out, sink, vanish from sight

Definition v. pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life

Last update: October 24, 2015


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Thousands of people perished in earthquake.   [verb]

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"They were all too good for me," she thought; "they shall not perish with me."   [verb]

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If not, let us perish, for it can make no difference to us now.   [verb]

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The seal on the bottle has perished.   [verb]

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Or everyone... all of mankind will perish from earth.   [verb]

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A few years later the entire team appeared to perish destroying once and for all the alien overlord behind Gallacter.   [verb]

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Does not the egg become a worm--the worm a fly, and perish.   [verb]

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"Ah, sweet, I began to love thee before ever I rose from that bed of horror where I had been left to perish."   [verb]

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"I'm afraid you must perish with _ennui_ here, with so few servants and no company to speak of."'   [verb]

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Medicine in those days left very little to Nature, and if patients perished it was seldom for want of drugs and medicaments.   [verb]

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