perished
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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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
In Argentina, roughly 1,300 sea lions and fur seals perished.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2026
Mark Davis was just 13 years old when he perished in a juvenile detention facility for Black boys in the eastern US state of Maryland some 140 years ago.
From Barron's • Feb. 27, 2026
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
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