Example sentences for: perpetuate

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

  • "Will strafing Iraqi military installations one more time make the Middle East a safer place--or will it only serve to perpetuate Saddam's malign influence by perversely giving him added kudos with his long-suffering people?"

  • This kind of story-telling was an important way to perpetuate legends for illiterate devotees, like comic books in stone.

  • Nor did they "perpetuate the massacre" there.

  • “Some qualities nature carefully fixes and transmits, but some, and those the finer, she exhales with the breath of the individual as too costly to perpetuate.

  • Is it not ironic then that they should still perpetuate so blatant a fallacy?


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