perished
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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A helpful map of the globe points out notoriously treacherous waters, including those off the southern tip of South America, where countless sailors have perished in the turbulent seas around Cape Horn.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
Memorial was founded in the late 1980s to document victims of Soviet-era political repression during which millions of people perished in the Gulag penal system.
From Barron's • Apr. 9, 2026
They had just dislodged Fred Holland and Walter Lees, who added 145 at The Oval in 1906, from the record books when Lawes perished.
From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026
Official records list disease as the cause of death for most of the boys who perished.
From Slate • Mar. 30, 2026
All the magicians on earth—at least everyone who knew what they were doing—had perished five hundred years earlier when the volcano erupted.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
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