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.
• For that, Navalny perished while in the hands of the state.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 19 Feb. 2024
• The group knows that some of those 427 may have perished in the flames.
  — Kevin Fagan, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 May 2018
• And some big, old, beloved trees perished from the high winds.
  — Justin Kaufmann, Axios, 16 July 2024
• At first, the team assumed the wolves would eat the deer and move on—or starve and perish.
  — Doug Johnson, Ars Technica, 26 Jan. 2023
• Nicole Quitasol perished in the blaze, which claimed the lives of 33 others.
  — Greg Moran, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Sep. 2019
• The shelter said on Facebook that all of the dogs perished in the blaze.
  — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 25 Oct. 2024
• Nine of them were rescued, but one, a meerkat, perished in the fire.
  — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 16 June 2023
• Cartwright said that of the 18 who perished in the heat in the county, at least six were older than 50.
  — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 11 July 2024
• Many of the trees are expected to perish in three to five years.
  — Brian Melley, ajc, 19 Nov. 2021
• The group makes a pact to contact the others from beyond the grave should one of them perish.
  — Michaela Zee, Variety, 20 Sep. 2022
• One kid ate the broiled fruit and loved it; the other would have sooner perished.
  — Emily Weinstein, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2025
• All the stories stress the maxim that our species must adapt or perish.
  — Washington Post, 10 May 2021
• The patient perished when the power was cut off, the spokesperson, Ashraf Al-Qudra, said.
  — NBC News, 16 Nov. 2023
• So far, 55 of those who perished in the crash have been identified.
  — Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2025
• The families of those who have perished in these fires, our hearts are with you.
  — NBC News, 12 Jan. 2025
• Some knew, and competed with, skaters who perished in the crash.
  — Laura Bauer, Kansas City Star, 5 Feb. 2025
• In Connington’s novel, the king and queen choose to stay in the South and perish with the bulk of their people.
  — Washington Post, 26 May 2021
• Copeland and the other soldiers who perished are buried in Epinal, France.
  — Jacob McAdams, Houston Chronicle, 31 May 2018
• In 2022, Monty was found on the beach, but later perished.
  — Sheryl Devore, Chicago Tribune, 13 Sep. 2023
• Lewis says the count of those who perished will likely climb daily.
  — Susan Young, Peoplemag, 17 Aug. 2023
• So that government of by and for the people shall not perish from this earth.
  — Will Steakin, ABC News, 28 Apr. 2023
• The gods perish, and whatever remains of the world sinks into the sea.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 16 Nov. 2018
• Even a single bite will doom you to perish bloated on the toilet.
  — Ryan Chapman, The New Yorker, 15 July 2022
• New York City has lost more than four times the number of people who perished in the 9/11 attacks.
  — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 19 Apr. 2020
• The dog who perished in the Hackman home was actually Zinna, a 12-year-old reddish Australian Kelpie mixed-breed.
  — Edward Segarra, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2025