Example sentences for: perished

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

  • 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.

  • Everybody notes that the twelfth American victim identified was the consul general at the Nairobi Embassy, Julian Bartley, whose 20-year-old son also perished.

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

  • His mother perished in the shipwreck.

  • In an air raid by 130 B29s, Tokyo was devastated and 100,000 of its inhabitants perished.


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