6 sentences with 'perished'

Example sentences and phrases with the word perished and other words derived from it.


« Shortly after take-off, they lost control of the plane and fell into a swamp; they perished instantly. »
« An inspection of the site where this ancient man perished yielded an incredible find: a leather quiver containing 14 arrows. »
« Without sanitation and medicine, many people perished from diseases we now consider inconsequential; few lived to the age of forty-five. »
« Hannibal crossed the Alps into Italy from Spain with 60,000 men and a few dozen war elephants (most of the elephants perished, but the survivors proved very effective, and terrifying, against Roman forces). »
« More than 90% of the slaves were sent to the Caribbean or Brazil because sugar cultivation, as well as coffee cultivation and mining in Brazil, required constant replacement as slaves perished from exhaustion or injury. »
« The bodies of those who perished, men in their 20s and 30s, lay scattered in the gorge until spring, when the nomads found them and covered them with stones. -If you stop to rest," Dorje concluded, "you will end up like them. »

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