Example sentences for: perished

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

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

  • How ironic that a program once watched by poor and wealthy viewers alike ultimately perished because its creator couldn't handle the move from being poor to being wealthy herself.

  • Each leaf bears the name of a Budapest family that perished in the Holocaust.

  • At least 7,000 troops died, the king included (though many refused to believe he had perished, and Elvis-like sightings were common).

  • Thousands perished and much of China’s cultural heritage was destroyed as a vestige of feudalism.


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