Example Sentences

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All that’s clear is massive landmarks are perishing and that you need to run.

From Salon • Apr. 26, 2024

With access to the usual breeding and birthing grounds blocked by militaries on either side, newborn goats are perishing in the extreme cold of higher elevations, herders say.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 18, 2020

It is not a “nursing home” where, we are told, people are perishing in significant numbers, where, in the cogent headline of a New York Times print headline, we are “sitting ducks.”

From Slate • May 19, 2020

Every day children are perishing in rural Yemen, where two-thirds of the nation’s population lives.

From Washington Post • Nov. 30, 2016

Those who know how to dance have had to go through it, and those who haven't learned are perishing for an opportunity.

From The Bachelors A Novel by Orcutt, William Dana