Example sentences for: perpetuated

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

  • It is not just that people like a colorful or romantic origin for a name and one that they can readily understand, but that folk etymologies themselves are perpetuated by reference works and guide books normally well regarded for their trustworthiness and authority.

  • This statement perpetuated doubts about Murdoch's attitude to the British royal family.

  • Lest readers underestimate the story's import, the Times quotes officials who rank the breach as far worse than the one committed by Aldrich Ames, and on a par with the misdeeds perpetuated (also at Los Alamos) by Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.

  • The church also perpetuated the separateness of the Mexican Americans and their Anglo neighbors” (Beeson, Adams, and King, xx).

  • The Lateran Treaty of 1929 had created a separate Vatican state and perpetuated Catholicism as Italy’s national religion with guaranteed religious education in the schools.


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