Example Sentences

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Each light is meant to represent approximately 1,000 Americans who will have perished from the virus at the time of his swearing-in.

From New York Times • Jan. 18, 2021

It is our belief that no one has survived and everyone will have perished.

From Reuters • Nov. 24, 2010

At this rate it will not be long before more people will have perished since the end of combat than during it.

From Time Magazine Archive

After passing through one winter the annual weeds will have perished and leave the grass to take the lead.

From Garden and Forest Weekly, Volume 1 No. 1, February 29, 1888 by Various

Long, long before then, your and my remembrance, Faith, will have perished from the earth.

From The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times by Adams, John Turvill