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Sentence Examples
| Is there an automatic mechanism to correct the situation or, perish the thought, is the situation more pathological? |
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| For their sake, he made them all perish in the next instant, dying as quick as a living creature could possibly. |
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| Kannada films are sure to perish like Marathi, Oriya and others if other language films are not restricted. |
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| He knew that if Esther refused, she too would perish because the law of the Medes and Persians showed no favoritism. |
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| If no berries remain, having been stripped earlier by blackbirds and mistle thrushes, they perish. |
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| Here, at last, we have one who seems, perish the thought, to be able to make up his own mind. |
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| To be sure, every human language is, in fact, mortal, subject to modification and change and destined at some point to perish. |
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| Melodies are left unattended to wither and die in the heat of the lights, and perish they almost inevitably do. |
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| Thousands of North Korean men, women and children are forced to work and often perish under conditions of slavery. |
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| Though it were likely that, among many that were nocent, some should perish that were innocent. |
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| Brotherly love never willingly leaves one to perish in his ignorance, errors or vices. |
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| Some argue that organic fruit and vegetables perish quickly, but there's no need to waste food that has reached the end of its shelf life. |
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| War gives them their liberty and sends them, like boys bounding out of school, to obtain their heart's desire or perish in the attempt. |
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| It constantly amazes me how so many plants can go into survival mode in extreme heat, toughing out conditions that humans would soon perish in. |
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| And the car passes over them, and crushes them, and cuts them in sunder, and so they perish on the spot. |
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| If they don't get attacked by a hostile neighbour they will perish from sheer want. |
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| While some manage the perilous crossing of the Strait of Gibraltar separating Spain from Morocco, many others perish trying. |
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| They survived the unknown hardships of war, only to perish while travelling to a job most Irish people would now turn their noses up at. |
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| Since you're looking for foods that don't perish too fast and can be eaten without silverware, I suggest plant-based foods for lunches. |
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| Except the dry leaves, they leave all vegetation to grow and perish in the field itself to enrich the soil. |
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| Or even, perish the thought, an expenditure that need not have its results measured in dollars and cents, but as an altruistic good. |
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| Malnourished children do not typically perish from hunger, but when children are weak, common childhood ailments become killers. |
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| Without this the species would be unable to adapt to changing conditions and would eventually perish. |
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| Often, when the queen or many workers are killed, host colonies eventually perish. |
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| But fish stocks, including expensive koi carp, did not perish because the tanks were covered. |
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| The blessedness of this doctrine is that he shall not be left to himself nor suffered to perish. |
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| Nobody wants or wishes to perish in an anonymous, faceless, globally uniform civilisation. |
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| It is feared around 10,000 of them could perish from hunger, cold and disease in the next two weeks unless help arrives. |
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| But perish the thought that you should actually cut your pay. |
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| The Republic will surely perish without a heroic effort from all of us. |
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| World War II offers innumerable opportunities for her to perish during the Blitz. |
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| He was a man destined to perish at a tragically premature age. |
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| And those who really feel that they will perish unless they have 32 ounces of Mountain Dew Code Red can simply buy two. |
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| A great scruple arose even in the minds of the most confident Assassinates, whether the nocent and the innocent might be destroyed and perish together. |
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| We could, perish the thought, have something of equal proportions. |
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| Not an inappropriate night for the Chief Witch to fall off his broomstick and perish in a fierce firefight. |
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| Will it successfully resist or perish due to state repression? |
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| How many beautiful friendships may perish prematurely because of people losing contact this way, as a result of some virus or other computer misfortune? |
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| Should I steer clear of any Volkswagen, Porsche, Audi or, perish the thought, Mercedes Benz? |
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| Hough, you hunger-starved gubbins or offals of men, how thrive you, how perish you? |
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| If all these gracious indulgences are without any effect on us, we must perish in our own folly. |
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| Kissing is a game that should always be played in private. Those who must lallygag or perish should pull down the blinds. |
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| For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. |
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| I believe that the whole frame of a beast doth perish, and is left in the same state after death as before it was materialled unto life. |
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| His pained shrieks cause women to miscarry, animals to perish and plants to become barren. |
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| Ash is not used much outdoors due to the heartwood having a low durability to ground contact, meaning it will typically perish within five years. |
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| Hold me. I am perishing. Achilles We can never perish. It is Unlove and unhate that give form To phantasms of time and space. |
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| Maybe the great anes o' the yerth get sic a forlethie o' grand'ur 'at they're for nae mair, an' wad perish like the brute beast. |
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| By all accounts he had expected to perish with the other Elders. |
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| Not quite cheek by jowl, perish the thought, but in the nooks and crannies of rooms, picking off other insects. |
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| I thought there was ether a drug raid, escaped convicts, or perish the thought. |
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| Nearly 3000 more were to perish while being evacuated from the city in train freight cars in the aftermath of the pogroms. |
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| The story shows the trope eroticize, rape, blame the victim, perish. |
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| Uniquely, many people in Montreal distinguish between words like marry versus merry and parish versus perish, which are homophones to most other speakers of Canadian English. |
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| The boat crashes and all but Mordred, who later kills his father, perish. |
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| The Battle of Lepanto as it was called, saw some 38,000 men perish. |
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| If both parents perish, the ensuing intensive begging sounds of the young often attract replacement parents which feed them until they can sustain themselves. |
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| According to the story, whoever killed a swan would perish as well. |
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| Like me, the son was inspired to go outback, and when things went wrong for him the desert seemed like the perfect place to perish and decay, to get blown around on the wind. |
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Examples from Classical Literature
| If they do not obtain access to the intestines of an animal within a week, they lose their ciliated mantle and perish. |
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| So fierce was the hurly-burly that it seemed as if man and horse must perish under it. |
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| Those eggs which form membranes begin to develop, but perish if they are not treated with hypertonic sea-water. |
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| Once removed from the soil and exposed to the inclemencies of the weather, the pupa would inevitably perish. |
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| And yet by some evil fortune they were left to perish at sea, and therefore are not interred here. |
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| The orthodox doctrine does not teach, as pantheism does, that our soul can not perish. |
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| Therefore, trees deprived of their foliage are liable to perish, and they are injured in proportion to their defoliation. |
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| Whence it comes to pass that all her gifts, elegancy, and graces corrupt and perish. |
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| The first to mount a breach, to effect a lodgement in a horn-work, to penetrate into a mine, was sure to perish. |
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| Let the day perish, and the night wherein it was said, There is a man-child conceived. |
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| He would not leave those whom He has delivered at such a price to perish in the final water, Alwin. |
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| I flatter myself the beasts that perish could not underbid that, as a low form of consciousness. |
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| That State must sooner or later perish where the majority triumphs and unintelligence decides. |
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| If he should perish through the deletion of this creature, she would account herself his slayer. |
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| The blow must be accurate then and there, or the sacrificer will be caught in the vice and perish. |
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| The memory of the Pilgrims can not perish while Plymouth Rock remains to us. |
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| Leave Castell and rush for the waist of the ship and so perish, or stay and die there? |
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| Fields could continue to perish of drought while nearby rivers continued to pour their unutilized waters into the sea! |
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| But, if the ballocks be marred, the whole race of human kind would forthwith perish, and be lost for ever. |
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| The man with overflowing strength, both of mind and body, who must discharge this strength or perish, is the nietzschean ideal. |
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| Nature brooks no delay, and the disharmonic organism must attune itself or perish. |
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| Any woman what'd leave a po' li'l mite lak dat to perish to death ain't fitten t' be no dotter o' mine. |
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| Pamphlets proclaimed the creed of open warfare and bade perish the thought of gumboot or of trench. |
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| It had long been an axiom with the slavocracy that the institution would perish unless it had the opportunity to expand. |
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| In the Roman states alone, sixty thousand perish every year from this paludal influence. |
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| Though small, they face the strong currents and eke out a living where their larger cousin, the yellow perch, would perish. |
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| The hero, doomed to perish, must be conducted by the Walkyria to Walhalla. |
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| Rob them of their superstition, and they perish amid all uncleanliness. |
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| These are annuals, and perish at the close of the growing season. |
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| Animals placed in a globe full of nitrogen perish of asphyxia. |
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| In any case, it is better to perish with it, than be made accomplices in a retaliation the justice of which we cannot judge. |
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| Is it not better, benet, to live here together than to perish singly? |
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| Fishes are, of course, unable to live in it, and those which descend through the Jordan, the Weber, and other streams soon perish. |
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| Also some of their Cattell perish, either by disease or mischance. |
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| Myriads perish in the digestive tract of man and other animals. |
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| Half the crew of seventy-seven perish of starvation and scurvy. |
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| Some of us must doubtlessly perish spiritually in such investigations. |
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| I would rather have remained a monkey all my life than let my benefactress perish in this shocking manner. |
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| For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but might have eternal life. |
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| If Jack Jaggers did not perish in the Everglades, he disappeared. |
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| The beavers must escape from their now foodless prison or perish. |
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| He now sat down again very much out of breath, gasping at his pipe as if it contained a supply of that necessary, without which he must perish. |
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| So long as the planets shall continue to move in their orbits, the BATTLE OF THE SAND-BELT will not perish out of the memories of men. |
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| Those quacks and misanthropes who advertise indelible Japan ink should be made to perish along with their wicked discoveries. |
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| It will languish and perish in the dry sunlight of open discussion. |
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| Should we all go on and perish, there will be none to guide a succoring party to Dejah Thoris and your daughter. |
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| It were sin, thought I, that my secret should perish with me. |
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| If God withdrew His protecting hand, I should perish immediately. |
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| Mr Verloc never meant Stevie to perish with such abrupt violence. |
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| Let our enemies perish, and the children of nake become rich! |
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| We are marching on, and will we, nill we, must conquer or perish. |
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| Perhaps he was going to perish here, without seeing the novella again. |
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| They have no vision, and when there is no vision the people perish. |
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| True, and you will grant that capital would perish if there were no labor to earn the dividends. |
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| They might perish before he could drive them to any other pasturage! |
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| It is hard to see how a pre-existing soul can perish utterly. |
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| You would not have me for fear of pain perish in putrescence. |
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| Would that he had not awakened me, would that I had died as I lay, rather than lived a little while till you perish thus, like a trapped fox, Nada, and presently I follow you. |
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| This can be easily accomplished by his friends, who will incur no danger in making the attempt to save him, but will be disgraced for ever if they allow him to perish. |
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| Ideas can never utterly perish, so these beliefs linger on in our midst, but they do not influence the great mass of the people, and Society has no support but Egoism. |
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| But I can see through it all, see into their very souls, and see there nothing but the souls of beasts, beasts that perish, anger and the lusts to live and gratify themselves. |
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