perishable
adjective
subject to decay, ruin, or destruction.
perishableness
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a word derived from
perishable.
Example Sentences
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It seemed as if a good genius with a gentle smile had raised him to a height from whence he could view at a single glance all the perishableness and emptiness of life.
From A Twofold Life by Wilhelmine von Hillern
Man reflects deeply, and with feelings of a mortified nature, upon the perishableness of his frame, and the approaching close, so far as depends upon the evidence of our senses, of his existence.
From Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author by William Godwin
New objects will intermingle, and we are compelled to draw from our grief itself a fresh proof of the perishableness of earthly things: alas, then, that our grief is transient!
From Famous Stories Every Child Should Know by Hamilton Wright Mabie
He reflected on fame, heroism, the madness of love, and the perishableness of all earthly things.
From The Undying Past by Hermann Sudermann
Time and their own "inherent perishableness" soon remove all traces of the poetasters.
From The Joyful Heart by Robert Haven Schauffler
