Sample sentences for PERPETUATE

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Definition

to cause to continue

perpetuate a myth

perpetuate = to cause to continue

The monument helps to perpetuate her memory.

perpetuate = to cause to continue

To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend this interest...
Abraham Lincoln -- Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address

perpetuate = cause to continue

The purpose of government was the guarding of property-rights, the perpetuation of ancient force and modern fraud.
Upton Sinclair -- The Jungle

(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)

They were perpetuating all of this, helping him disappear.
Dave Eggers -- The Circle
"The Gift was given to the Night's Watch in perpetuity, Your Grace," Bowen Marsh insisted.
George R.R. Martin -- A Storm of Swords
The 12th System perpetuates my existence to perpetuate its own.
Rick Yancey -- The Infinite Sea
Why perpetuate this legend of selflessness?
Thornton Wilder -- The Bridge of San Luis Rey
These regimes, they note, propped up economic elites who resisted reforms and perpetuated unequal political and economic systems.
Sonia Nazario -- Enrique's Journey
Comrade Pillai, grateful for the misunderstanding, perpetuated it.
Arundhati Roy -- The God of Small Things
"This unhappy marriage of mine to be perpetuated in that child's name!"
Thomas Hardy -- The Return of the Native
Those who survived to grow up— and perpetuate the race—would therefore be those who came out best in the struggle for survival.
Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World
"You're helping perpetuate this fraud," he told Lori.
Jeannette Walls -- The Glass Castle
This is how we avoid the trap of self-perpetuating ideology.
Neal Stephenson -- Snow Crash
The reader will easily believe, that from what I had hear and seen, my keen appetite for perpetuity of life was much abated.
Jonathan Swift -- Gulliver's Travels
But the problems of perpetuating a hierarchical society go deeper than this.
George Orwell -- 1984
Sexually, Woman is Nature's contrivance for perpetuating its highest achievement.
George Bernard Shaw -- Man And Superman
"Well your home is perpetuating the belief that genetically damaged people need to be fixed that they're damaged, period, which they—we—are not.
Veronica Roth -- Allegiant
They were only the memory, the perpetuation of a suffering that had come to him from without.
Marcel Proust -- Swann's Way

But that didn't change the ugliness; it only ensured that those who perpetuated the ugliness were left alone to kill and maim and rape.
Ted Dekker -- BoneMan's Daughters

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