perishable
adjective
subject to decay, ruin, or destruction.
unperishable
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a word derived from
perishable.
Example Sentences
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We are asking sons of mothers to help us build a temple in unperishable marble to the mothers of the world.
From Time Magazine Archive
For the unperishable dream of the soul lives on, As the dream of genius must, When the brain which wrought and the hand that wrote Are one with the "daisied dust."
From More Toasts by Marion Dix Mosher
The perishable goods were placed in the large warehouses but the unperishable were covered with tarpaulin and left where unloaded.
From Dangers of the Trail in 1865 A Narrative of Actual Events by H. DeF. Patterson
The unperishable chests, which contain the Egyptian mummies, were of Cypress; and the Cedar, with which black-lead pencils are covered, is not liable to be eaten by worms.
From The Botanic Garden. Part II. Containing the Loves of the Plants. a Poem. With Philosophical Notes. by Erasmus Darwin
He, surely, can destroy it," answered Imlac, "since, however unperishable, it receives from a superiour nature its power of duration.
From Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., in Nine Volumes by Samuel Johnson
