Example Sentences

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More than a dozen terrified people waded into a frigid reservoir, nearly succumbing to the cold while their neighbours were perishing in the heat.

From The Guardian • Dec. 10, 2018

In 2004, some 460 migrants died, and by 2005, more than 500 people were perishing in the desert.

From Salon • Mar. 23, 2013

At some places there had been rain, so that a little grass had sprung up; in others the saltbushes were perishing from drought.

From From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People by Hedin, Sven Anders

They too were victims of the imperial policy, were perishing of the contagion which that policy caused, and thus were paying a terrible penalty for their own unwitting crime.

From The Cradle of the Christ A Study in Primitive Christianity by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks

Their mutual friends were perishing around them; Terence himself was grievously compromised.

From My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis