Example Sentences

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Long after the last Homo sapiens has perished, Lomberg’s drawings may provide the universe’s most compelling clue that our colorful, complicated species was ever here.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 26, 2023

In “The OA,” a fable-like iteration of the resurrection theme, the heroine has perished many times over, blind in one incarnation but gifted in another with an extraordinary second sight.

From New York Times • Sep. 16, 2021

“It would be extremely disrespectful to understand your loved one has perished and to learn about it from TMZ,” Villanueva said.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 27, 2020

Here he tells the story of rich tourists stranded on an island after the rest of humanity has perished from world war and epidemic.

From Salon • Jun. 2, 2013

He cannot thank the book; the book has perished, as he nearly did, in scattered pieces, in the earliest hours of an October day, in a field 209 kilometers from Calcutta.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri