Sample Sentences for
perish
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    They'd perish if they went outdoors in this weather!  (source)
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    "I'm 'bout to perish," said Dill.  (source)
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    And Roman doesn't see a great deal of difference between his own widely respected deeds and McCandless's adventure, except that McCandless had the misfortune to perish.  (source)
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    Seeing that all life depends on this precise and intricate code transcribed on fragile, organic slivers, which would perish instantly in a slightly warmer or colder world.  (source)
    perish = cease to exist
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    For those who perished on the line He did not seem to care, His engine being more to him Than all the people there.  (source)
    perished = died
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    I'd made the jar as nice as I could with felty petals, fat with pollen, and more than enough nail holes in the lid to keep the bees from perishing, since for all I knew, people might come back one day as the very thing they killed.  (source)
    perishing = dying
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    Everything has to evolve or else it perishes.†  (source)
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    —ISAIAH "And what thing soever besides cometh within the chaos of this monster's mouth, be it beast, boat, or stone, down it goes all incontinently that foul great swallow of his, and perisheth in the bottomless gulf of his paunch."†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She perisheth" in older English, today we say "She perishes."
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    2470 Then sin was and striving of Swedes and of Geats, Over the wide water war-tide in common, The hard horde-hate to wit sithence Hrethel perish'd; And to them ever were the Ongentheow's sons Doughty and host-whetting, nowise then would friendship Hold over the waters; but round about Hreosnaburgh The fierce fray of foeman was oftentimes fram'd.†  (source)
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    Therefore, you clown, abandon,—which is in the vulgar, leave,—the society,—which in the boorish is company,—of this female,—which in the common is woman,—which together is abandon the society of this female; or, clown, thou perishest; or, to thy better understanding, diest; or, to wit, I kill thee, make thee away, translate thy life into death, thy liberty into bondage: I will deal in poison with thee, or in bastinado, or in steel; I will bandy with thee in faction; will o'er-run thee with policy; I will kill thee a hundred and fifty ways; therefore tremble and depart.†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-est" is dropped, so that where they said "Thou perishest" in older English, today we say "You perish."
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    Montag saw the flirt of a great metal fist over the far city and he knew the scream of the jets that would follow, would say, after the deed, disintegrate, leave no stone on another, perish.  (source)
    perish = die
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    Here, homeless and friendless, after thirty-seven years of bitter captivity, perished a noble stranger, natural son of Louis XIV.  (source)
    perished = died
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    Kassad grimaces, closes his eyes, sees......fireballs expanding, stars dying, suns exploding in great pulses of flame, star systems perishing in an ecstasy of destruction......he feels pain in his chest, his hips not stopping, moving faster, even as he opens his eyes and sees......the great thorn of steel rising from between Moneta's breasts, almost impaling him as he unconsciously pulls up and back, the thornblade drawing blood which drips on her flesh, her pale flesh, reflective now, flesh as cold as dead metal, his hips still moving even as he watches through passion-dimmed eyes as Moneta's lips wither and curl back, revealing rows of steel blades where teeth had been, metal blades slash†  (source)
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