How to Use perish in a Sentence
perish
verb
- The sailors perished at sea.
- Two people perished in the fire.
- The rubber will perish with age.
- Many ancient languages have perished over time.
- The civilization perished after 500 years.
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For that, Navalny perished while in the hands of the state.
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Ishaan Tharoor,
Washington Post,
19 Feb. 2024
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At first, the team assumed the wolves would eat the deer and move on—or starve and perish.
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Doug Johnson,
Ars Technica,
26 Jan. 2023
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Nine of them were rescued, but one, a meerkat, perished in the fire.
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Melissa Locker,
Southern Living,
16 June 2023
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The group makes a pact to contact the others from beyond the grave should one of them perish.
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Michaela Zee,
Variety,
20 Sep. 2022
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The patient perished when the power was cut off, the spokesperson, Ashraf Al-Qudra, said.
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NBC News,
16 Nov. 2023
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In 2022, Monty was found on the beach, but later perished.
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Sheryl Devore,
Chicago Tribune,
13 Sep. 2023
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Lewis says the count of those who perished will likely climb daily.
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Susan Young,
Peoplemag,
17 Aug. 2023
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So that government of by and for the people shall not perish from this earth.
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Will Steakin,
ABC News,
28 Apr. 2023
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Even a single bite will doom you to perish bloated on the toilet.
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Ryan Chapman,
The New Yorker,
15 July 2022
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The crash caused destructive firestorms and tsunamis that put the Earth into an ice age, causing much of the world's species to perish.
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Phillip Nieto,
Fox News,
18 Aug. 2022
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In this world, no one can be surprised when one’s heroes, peers, and friends perish.
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Chris Vognar,
Rolling Stone,
19 July 2023
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The church expected the world to end within a few years, so at first the pitch was wild-eyed: convert or perish!
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Tad Friend,
The New Yorker,
1 Aug. 2022
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In the 39 years, 14 horses have perished running in Breeders’ Cup races.
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John Cherwa,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Nov. 2023
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Like Space Toad, the plucky bat likely perished in its attempt to be the very first bat astronaut.
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Jennifer Ouellette,
Ars Technica,
15 Apr. 2023
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Four of those children have since perished from their injuries.
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Kristi Miller,
Twin Cities,
13 Jan. 2024
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Inside adds one more to that list of adapt-or-perish hot spots: New York real estate.
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David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
16 Mar. 2023
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So many people would have perished if those changes weren’t put into place, lifeboats and bulkheads and things like that.
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Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
27 Mar. 2024
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Stranded in the cold, all 129 men aboard perished, and the wooden ships disappeared without a trace.
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Brendan Rascius,
Miami Herald,
24 Jan. 2024
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In the Seventies, more than one hundred million of them were sure to perish in a global famine.
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Michael Robbins,
Harper’s Magazine ,
9 Nov. 2022
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In less than six months, such an outbreak would cause millions of people to suffer and perish throughout the world.
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Chuck Brooks,
Forbes,
29 Feb. 2024
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Some may perish under the long slow commute aboard shuttle busses.
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Shannon Larson,
BostonGlobe.com,
5 Aug. 2022
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The fact that the couple could—and in fact would—perish on any of their research expedition frames the narrative.
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Katherine Cusumano,
Outside Online,
15 July 2022
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But one diver does perish, and his drowning is shown on camera.
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Common Sense Media,
Washington Post,
5 Aug. 2022
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Many of those will get hooked on tobacco, and sometime down the road will perish as a direct result.
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Los Angeles Times,
14 Jan. 2023
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Kill or be killed, win the throne or serve as vassal, sleep under your own roof or perish in the forest: No show has a darker heart.
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Tom Gliatto,
Peoplemag,
24 July 2023
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