Example sentences for: perished

How can you use “perished” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The exact casualty figure will never be known, but it is estimated that 5,000 died immediately and between 40,000 and 60,000 perished as a result of secondary injuries and the ensuing famine and pestilence.

  • One cub perished after Ling-Ling sat on it.

  • and everywhere around us the ghoulish news of 217 people perished at sea.

  • The Cuban government says González should be returned to his Cuban father, claiming that his mother, who perished in the shipwreck, had kidnapped him.

  • Deathwatch: Tiny Tim perished, apparently from a heart attack.


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