Sample Sentences for
perpetuate
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    To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend this interest...  (source)
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    "You're helping perpetuate this fraud," he told Lori.†  (source)
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    Cal's just as bad, raised to rule, to perpetuate this world of division even further.†  (source)
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    To perpetuate their kind, birds trill their melodious tones.†  (source)
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    I would remain a child, in perpetuity, always, or I would lose him.†  (source)
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    Comrade Pillai, grateful for the misunderstanding, perpetuated it.†  (source)
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    I fault the media for perpetuating these grandiose dreams.†  (source)
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    It was, however, an autocracy by consent, for they were united from top to bottom by a commonly held ideology whose perpetuation was the reason and justification for all their sufferings.†  (source)
    standard suffix: 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.
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    Nor, at the time, had it failed to enter his monomaniac mind, that all the anguish of that then present suffering was but the direct issue of a former woe; and he too plainly seemed to see, that as the most poisonous reptile of the marsh perpetuates his kind as inevitably as the sweetest songster of the grove; so, equally with every felicity, all miserable events do naturally beget their like.†  (source)
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    The sublimities, the perpetuities, might have left him as he was: but this tent pitched for a day's revelry spread a roof of oblivion between himself and his fixed sky.†  (source)
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    He had taught her that nothing one does in bed is immoral if it helps to perpetuate love.†  (source)
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    My uniforms from work gave every workday a sameness that felt like perpetuity.†  (source)
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    You perpetuated a series of illegal actions that enslaved free men.†  (source)
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