Example sentences for: perpetuate

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

  • The long-heralded teen-sex comedy has already been dubbed Porky's 2000 , but it's worth remembering that Porky's (1981) was a piece of sexist junk, and that both American Pie and the vastly superior There's Something About Mary (1998) dramatize adolescent sexual panic in ways that seem more likely to relieve than to perpetuate it.

  • 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.

  • Unfortunately, the authors perpetuate the extremely common misconception that enophthalmos accompanies ptosis and miosis in human Horner Syndrome.

  • "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?"


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