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
Because of their unperishable nature, they may be stored in large quantities and distributed to consumers as they are needed and at a price that is fairly uniform.
From Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 1: Essentials of Cookery; Cereals; Bread; Hot Breads by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
Thence proceed the great elements, endued with peculiar powers, and mind with operations infinitely subtile, the unperishable cause of all apparent forms.
From Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology by James Freeman Clarke
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
