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• They could not adapt to the new climate and so perished.From the entry adapt
• The seasoning is a kaleidoscope of Day-Glo dust particles that perishes under saliva and tongue.2022 April 20, Mariella Rudi, “Tostitos Hint of Lime has zero lime – but it’s still the perfect chip”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The…. From the entry kaleidoscope
• And so perish all that heed not the Gospel of Christ!'2011, Arthur D Bardswell, The Poor Preachers: The Adventures of the First Lollards, page 121. From the entry lickerousness
• There was a rather satisfying little crack as each of the perishers perished.2010, Alan Weeks, Bloody Picnic: Tommy's Humour, 1914-18, The History Press, →ISBN. From the entry perisher
• Simeti, the bright light of his eye, had perished in the fire and smoke and thunder.2010, David Luders, Cataclysm, page 91. From the entry light of one's eye
• A third is that they perished while serving in the special Afro-Argentine male battalions of the army.2003, C. Michael Hawn, Gather Into One: Praying and Singing Globally. From the entry Afro-Argentine
• Don't!", wherein a talking snake convinces the female to eat from it and none of them perish.2001 September 1, Robert Templeton, “Evolution? Nope!”, in alt.talk.creationism (Usenet), archived from the original on 06 Aug 2026. From the entry touchy
• The choice before man remains what it has always been—conform or perish.1972, Romesh Thapar, “A Disciplining Philosophy of Living”, in Anil Bordia, J[ames] R[obbins] Kidd, J[ames] A. Draper, editors, Adult…. From the entry me tooism
• It was a Victorian concept and its life force perished with the Victorian Age.1948, Henry Vincent Hodson, Twentieth-century Empire, page 102. From the entry highmindedness
• Greene died of a debauch; and Marlowe, the gracer of tragedians, perished in an ignominious brawl.1902, Thomas Ebenezer Webb, The Mystery of William Shakespeare: A Summary of Evidence, page 242. From the entry ignominious
• Which brings us to what happens after a robot perishes.2020 August 31, Kelsey Dickson, “So How DOES Death Work in the Robots Universe Anyway?”, in CBR. From the entry outmode
• It's equal-opportunity publish or perish, leaking breasts or not.”2008, Kate Jacobs, Knit Two, Penguin, →ISBN. From the entry pat leave
• Lady gave me the facial impression that she thought my point was narrow, anorakish or even—perish the thought—tendentious.2006, John Bercow, Member of Parliament (UK), floor debate in the House of Commons, Hansard (June 5). From the entry anorakish
• Yinti was perishing for a drink of water.1992, Jimmy Pike, Yinti, in Heiss & Minter, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 140. From the entry coolamon
• They died to decree that government of and by and for the PEOPLE (identity undefined) should never perish.1976, Akros, page 56. From the entry perisher
• But he plunges the needle with such generous and hypergelastic opiate that even as we perish we bless his name.1949 March 9, Christopher Morley, “Pull Over to the Curb”, in The Saturday Review of Literature, volume XXXII, number 12, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry hypergelastic
• When that outworn empire perished with the fall of Constantinople, Ivan succeeded nominally at least to its heirship.1905, Editor-in-Chief: Rossiter Johnson, The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 8. From the entry heirship
• And at this moment, in the city, nothing more is needed for Caesar and the city’s gods to perish than the resurrection of the saints.2018, Zygmunt Krasiński, translated by Charles S. Kraszewski, Dramatic Works, London: Glagoslav Publications, →ISBN. From the entry doddard
• Not maritally; no, perish the thought.2007 June 22, Grace Dent, The Guardian, G2, p. 3. From the entry perish the thought
• For the average faculty member in the next few years, the pressure to publish or perish will be more real than ever before.1974, Conference Proceedings, page 103. From the entry publish or perish
• Beloved characters, whom you’d spent entire seasons observing glumly wander the various arboreal environs of Georgia, could perish in a crimson shower of their most private innards.2017 April 3, Luke Holland, “When good TV goes bad: how The Walking Dead started to stink”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian…. From the entry takesies backsies
• Thousands of Pashmina goats may have perished in recent heavy snowfall around the nomadic areas of Changthang on the Sino-Indian frontier of the Ladakh region, officials said on Friday.2013 February 22, Ashok Pahalwan, “Pashmina goats perishing in heavy snow on Indian frontier”, in Paul Casciato, editor, Reuters, archived…. From the entry Changthang
• Some variants of the tale say that all the bogatyrs perished in the battle except Ilya of Murom, who, however, died after coming back as a winner.2011, Konstantin M Averin, Tatiana I Pavlova, To Be Or Not to Be Russian?, page 31. From the entry bogatyr
• A Sekhri girl had hid behind the lofty rocks which had remained unconquered for long, and had watched the British perishing ungainfully without adding any glory to the Empire.1995, Brij Mohan Toofan, The Kiss of Freedom, page 83. From the entry ungainfully
• Johnson and tea may not perish from the earth forever, some members of the Boswell Club of Chicago formed a group known as "THE JOHNSONIAN TEAERS".1948, Clarence Altha Miller, Johnsoniana: Three Papers, page 43. From the entry teaer
• If many more white men knew of this method of obtaining and extracting water, there would be, perhaps, many saved from the horrors of perishing thirst.1946, Frank W. C. Rieck, Life as I See It, page 308. From the entry perishing
• Probably many of these incognita and rarissima perished in the great fire of London; others again met their fate solely through their own popularity, being ‘thumbed’ to pieces.1922, P. B. M. Allan, chapter I, in The Book-Hunter at Home, 2nd edition, London: Philip Allan & Co., page 14. From the entry rarissima
• Some day would come Ragnarok, or the Twilight of the Gods, when all creation would be destroyed, and all the Gods and men save Alfadur perish.1916 February, H. P. Lovecraft, “The Teuton's Battle-Song”, in United Amateur. From the entry Ragnarok
• While she’s testing, Pink Sauce is trending on Twitter, mostly with people posting memes about how they or anyone else will surely perish if they eat the forbidden Barbiecore condiment.2022 July 21, Samantha Cole, “Let Me Eat the TikTok 'Pink Sauce'”, in Vice. From the entry Barbiecore
• Those shelters formed chapels where aged forms of the implants monked out in built cells, little churchy cells that perished or grew plain, quivering and hidden from sight under alders.2014, Ken Babstock, On Malice, →ISBN, page 63. From the entry monk

Meaning of perish

1. verb To decay and disappear; to waste away to nothing.
2. verb To decay in such a way that it cannot be used for its original purpose.
3. verb To die; to cease to live.

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How do you use perish in a sentence?

Perish is used as a verb. For example: “They could not adapt to the new climate and so perished.”

What is a short sentence with perish?

“Not maritally; no, perish the thought.”

What does perish mean?

Perish means to decay and disappear; to waste away to nothing.