Example Sentences

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What, he asks himself, must he tell his 7-year-old son before he’s carried away to imperishability?

From Washington Post • Feb. 14, 2019

Orr did not receive screen credit, but the imperishability of her story’s message is telling.

From Salon • Jul. 18, 2017

I closed this hefty volume with new reverence for what Schama calls “the imperishability of Judaic beauty” and new despair at how long and how vehemently the world has tried to extinguish it.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 26, 2014

Her career has had a strange imperishability without ever really ripening.

From New York Times • Apr. 15, 2011

The fifth Lateran Council proclaimed anew the tenet of the imperishability of the spirit of man.

From The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume 1, January, 1880 by Walker, Aaron