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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 crash caused destructive firestorms and tsunamis that put the Earth into an ice age, causing much of the world's species to perish.
  — Phillip Nieto, Fox News, 18 Aug. 2022
• If the net cannot be loosened, the whale will perish miserably.
  — Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 18 Jan. 2022
• In this world, no one can be surprised when one’s heroes, peers, and friends perish.
  — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 19 July 2023
• Both parents and four of her six siblings would perish in the Holocaust.
  — Emily Langer, Washington Post, 8 May 2021
• The church expected the world to end within a few years, so at first the pitch was wild-eyed: convert or perish!
  — Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022
• In the 39 years, 14 horses have perished running in Breeders’ Cup races.
  — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2023
• Even more tragic was the fact that his 13-year-old daughter and seven others perished in the crash as well.
  — Essence, 28 Jan. 2020
• The chances of slipping by without getting caught are higher, but so are the risks of perishing along the way.
  — Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 19 Sep. 2024
• The same number will likely perish next year, and almost as many the year after that.
  — Steve Cohen, STAT, 28 July 2021
• The dollar is not going to perish; gold will never be money in your pocket again.
  — Clem Chambers, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024