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Sentence Examples Dr Braithwaite is now keen to establish a tourism project in Sandakan in memory of his father, and to honour the memory of the many who perished. Now, after 343 of them perished in the terrorist attacks, there are just too many funerals, wakes and memorial services to get round them all. Thus perished one of the greatest statesmen of his age and of Dutch history. He played football but longed to be a kick-boxer, a dream that perished on the rock of short and stumpy legs. While the workers and the middle class of the great cities perished in misery, Stinnes became the owner of fabulous riches. Job explained that wicked and good alike rose and fell and the work of men perished like ears of corn. It was generally believed, too, when I first yarned to people, that some of those who had fled had perished of exhaustion and thirst. For days, local fishermen and other volunteers combed the sea for wreckage and the grisly remains of the 229 people who perished. On August 28, 1826, following an epochal storm in the White Mountains, the family perished under an enormous rockslide. Five people perished Sunday morning in a blaze that swept through their Philadelphia row house. Avoiding this decision is why so many who have attempted Everest's peak have perished. However, modern neonatal intensive care does allow the survival of many premature babies that would have perished in the past. Forever in our hearts are all those who perished, all those who were so savagely oppressed. The colony failed in less than two years because the mulberry trees and tea seedlings perished in the dry California soil. Conditions were so atrocious that the rescue services could also have perished. Now every year a special memorial service is held to remember all those who perished in the awful disaster. The waters of the Tigris ran red with human blood, many libraries perished, water resources trashed, irreplaceable cultural treasures were lost. As I have long suspected, Bellandor perished by his own hand when the city he helped defend was under siege. Three perished in house blazes and one was killed when two vehicles crashed and burst into flames. I am angry for the innocent, unnumbered and uncounted civilians who have perished. Show More Sentences Gary Kane had been the skipper of the boat in which all four crew perished. My mother, sister, and other brother had perished of malnutrition, starvation, and illness, and my father had been murdered. The five sledgers in the polar party were dead, though nobody yet knew how or where they had perished. The food of a nation had perished, and a desolation unexampled in modern times came down upon the land. I am angry for the innocent, unnumbered and uncounted Iraqi civilians who have perished. Rare plant life which has perished includes cloudberry, a sub-arctic bramble, which thrives on moorland peat bogs. A great many fishermen perished at sea, especially during the brutal winter season. Perhaps 1,800 perished altogether in the noyades, and their bodies were washed up on the tidal banks of the Loire for weeks afterwards. I should choose to serve as the hireling of another, rather than to be lord over the dead that have perished. Caught by the rays of the sun and volcanic eruptions, many patupaiarehe perished. Unable to even screech before the veil of death fell upon her, Solokar perished instantly, rivulets of green ichor spraying from her wounds. Forty-nine people were killed in the city and a further 16 perished at sea. But, in some cases, some of the people perished as a result of the flooding. An estimated 3.3 million people perished in the war, mainly through war-induced disease and famine. We found her boat, in pieces on the shore, and I thought she had perished in a violent storm crossing the ocean. Much of the army perished at the river, and most of the rest were captured. Approximately 200,000 Irishmen served in World War 1 and over 60,000 perished in the conflict. The thousands who perished there certainly deserve the honour and the remembrance. More than 50 million soldiers and civilians perished in the Second World War. The house was razed and both daughters, aged 4 and 6, perished in the blaze. Show More Sentences Sixty-eight journalists were killed during World War II, while 38 perished in the Korean War. He and Lady Charlotte both tragically perished in a great fire at the temple today. Much of the work from the silent era has perished or been lost to future generations. Her love for him, however, had slowly perished throughout the years of their marriage. Empires and ideologies have triumphed, perished and fallen into oblivion through the centuries. Leaks due to cracked or perished rubber make accurate measurement of blood pressure difficult because the fall in mercury cannot be controlled. High in the Alps is a monument raised in honour of a faithful guide who perished while ascending a peak to rescue a stranded tourist. Assistant commissars of foreign affairs, as well as ambassadors, plenipotentiaries, and consul-generals, also perished. Although a crude approximation, this also suggests that roughly 3000 caribou perished during this event. He is introduced into the camp scene after having miraculously survived the horror of a gas chamber killing in which all others perished. Moments later the boats were smashed to smithereens by the force of the giant wave and the boatmen were believed to have perished. He used to be a good policeman who never failed to discharge his duty and he perished like a hero. He could have been one among the many migrant workers, dishwashers, messengers, cleaners, and restaurant help who perished on that day. We believe at this time that the boy has probably perished in the crash. Since 2011, at least 20 children have perished while digging, according to Hanna. During that time, thousands more had perished in the gas chambers. All in all, approximately 13,000 allied POWs and 90,000 Asian laborers perished while working on the railway. It was a negligent accident that cost more than 30 lives, including a salvage diver who perished working on the wreck. When the volcano blew its top, thousands perished, immolated by fire, boiling magma, and ash. Some of those 900 bison might have perished naturally during the killing cold of winter and provided spring food for grizzlies. Show More Sentences But eventually, like all of Furst's leading men, Szara survives where others have perished, thanks to native intelligence, a nose for danger, and street smarts. While the dream of the confederacy was kept alive, the men on the battlefield on both sides perished by the tens of thousands. In 1614 Hideyori fortified himself inside Osaka castle with over 100,000 troops, many of whom were ronin, dispossessed samurai whose masters had perished in battle. Captain McDonald, two mates, two wheelsmen and two watchmen, all caught at the bow of the broken vessel, perished trying to ride their make-shift raft to Sand Island. Thirty-eight U.S. and Afghan special forces perished in the copter shoot down. Apparently, a great earthquake caused a cataclysmic rush of water to submerge the parish of Feadaill at the south end of the loch, and all its inhabitants perished. He died in a shabby Roman hotel the year after that regime had perished. At Towton Field, on 29th March, 1461, 33,000 men perished by the sword and were buried there. The tree's bright green foliage contrasted with the swing, whose wood had long perished, cut off from its source of life, and was now numb to the world. All were rescued except two crew members who perished in the engine room. A stepsister riding in the car with him during a trip home to Massachusetts also perished. If he hadn't been so skilled, he may have perished eons ago. Seven astronauts perished when hot exhaust gas leaked from one of the booster rockets, destroying the vehicle less than two minutes into the flight. He later contracted and perished from cancer, which he and his father believed was caused by exposure to chemical defoliants used extensively in the war. The Soviet regime was merciless to its opponents, and millions suffered and perished in its labor camp. Scans revealed the thin layer of bone behind the cheek which supports the eye had perished and all the tissue had disappeared through a hole to the sinuses. Nobody wished the pooch ill, but it seemed almost too cruel that the dog had survived while Jake and Jessie had perished. His mother and three sisters had been sent to Treblinka where they all perished. As superheated liquid rock and gas gushed down the mountainside, an estimated 12,000 local people perished within 24 hours. Many throughout the country are grieving the deaths of those who perished in the struggle to overcome the Yanukovych regime. Show More Sentences Many frontier inhabitants had perished, some cities had experienced food shortages, several colonies had been plunged into debt, and the citizenry groaned under heavy taxes. This was even before the current ISIS crisis in which many more have perished. Thousands perished en route to safer shores or fell prey to marauding pirates. By the end of the 1840s over one million Irish had perished from hunger and associated disease and another two million had emigrated to escape the misery. Scores of peafowl have perished in various villages, but the wildlife department is yet to take any significant step to improve the situation. In Russia alone, between 1847 and 1851, more than one million people perished of the disease. Our short dozen of Aristophanic dramas may be taken to represent the fittest among the hundreds of other comedies which have perished. As overgrazed pastures turn to sand, hundreds of thousands of livestock have perished, and villagers have abandoned the area. More than 150 Salvationists perished, including 30 of the 39 members of the Canadian Staff Band. Death is not unknown to him, but she has perished And her errand ghost wanders through the night. There is no remembrance ceremony even in Mangalore to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the crash that perished 158 lives. When that outworn empire perished with the fall of Constantinople, Ivan succeeded nominally at least to its heirship. Two cities were sacked, eighty thousand of the Romans and of their allies perished, and the island was lost to Rome. The bomb site has since been turned into a Memorial Park, a place where a polished stone wall lists the names of all who perished. Many of the victims were in the holiday bungalows of the eastern Newlands estate and perished as the water reached ceiling level. Sam has an angry stalker, the son of the loafered couple who perished in the Dickinson fire. Many immigrants have perished in the journey across the Mediterranean, with one notable incident being the May 2007 Malta migrant boat disaster. Such a road, though privately constructed, became a public road when the memory of its private constructors had perished. Ayrshire folklore states that Coel and his entire army perished in the Battle of Coilsfield. In 1915 John McCrae, a Canadian army doctor, wrote the poem In Flanders Fields as a salute to those who perished in the Great War. Show More Sentences You have the models of several ancient temples, though the temples and the gods are perished. The latter, however useful or necessary, created services that perished at the time of production and therefore did not contribute to wealth. But on the tenth day of the same month perished almost the whole army which he led from Ouania to Niwanbirig. The chief officer and a boat's crew perished while attempting to reach the shore. Had it not been for the monastic scribes of Late Antiquity, most literature of Greece and Rome would have perished in Europe. In May 2012, hundreds of Peruvian pelicans were reported to have perished in Peru from a combination of starvation and roundworm infestation. Admiral Makarov, the single most effective Russian naval strategist of the war, perished on the battleship Petropavlovsk. In 1477, the Burgundian duke Charles the Bold perished in the Battle of Nancy. Although some, such as Pliny, claimed that Eudoxus did achieve his goal, the most probable conclusion is that he perished on the journey. Four in five of the crew on board the vessel were Sotonians, with about a third of those who perished in the tragedy hailing from the city. Most perished as they crossed the frozen Danube on foot, only for the ice to give way. Thousands of people perished in these densely populated working class boroughs. Dias perished near the Cape of Good Hope that he presciently had named Cape of Storms. Virchow speculated that the protoscolices may have perished in the smaller vesicles or been transformed into a cystic form, which he called acephalocysts. Hand-reared sacred ibis Tutan, kookaburra Maidi, red-legged seriema Sergio, ageing eagle owl Ludwig and burrowing owls Bilbo and Hercules are among the birds to have perished. Youngsters will learn that as a boy inventor Thomas Edison nearly perished when he fell into a grain elevator because he want to see how the elevator worked. Capital misallocations were corrected, bad investments perished, debtors reached settlements with creditors, and simple living replaced extravagance. More than 70 hampsters as well as rabbits and finches perished as temperatures soared in the vehicle parked at the University of Ulster campus in Coleraine. Some variants of the tale say that all the bogatyrs perished in the battle except Ilya of Murom, who, however, died after coming back as a winner. Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core. Show More Sentences At that time they say that the Emperor Honorius in Ravenna received the message from one of the eunuchs, evidently a keeper of the poultry, that Roma had perished. Between the north end of Jura and the small isle of Skarba there is a famous whirlpool, called Cory-vrekan, from Brecan, son of a king of Denmark, who perished in this gulph. Since that time, there have been several additional boat sinkings, and only as recently as April 2015, some 700 immigrants perished en route to Italy when their boat capsized. Around 1349, about half the population perished in the Black Death plague. A total of 2,977 victims and the 19 hijackers perished in the attacks. Thousands of fleeing Bastarnae perished, many asphyxiated in nearby woods by encircling fires set by the Romans, others drowned trying to swim across the Danube. The few remaining employees not somewhat protected by a mixed marriage were deported from Hamburg on 23 June to Theresienstadt, where most of them perished. These Turks kept loyal to the Emperor and perished in the ensuing battle. In the war that followed, Genghis triumphed and Prester John perished. Although some reports put the number as low as forty, the Spanish probably lost around 100 soldiers in the siege, while thousands of Tlaxcalans perished. Smallpox was also spread among the natives and many perished. Most of the crews were rescued by nearby vessels, but some perished, either drowning in their attempt to reach shore or dying of cold, hunger, or illness. The documents on 152 Spaniards who perished in the labour camp shed some light and told their stories to their families that did not know what happened to their loved ones. Examples from Classical Literature Thus perished Sviatoslav, in spite of his Slavonic name a thorough type of the Varangian chieftain. This led to the Alexandrine war, in the course of which this elder Ptolemy perished. He came home with me, and, far from having perished at sea, is now alive and well. And so seventeenth century Meknez has perished while the Almohad walls and towers of the tenth century still stand. His genius got anglified, took a consumption, and perished in the prime of life. Thus perished an ardent and learned youth, who ought only to have been condemned as a bedlamite. In all about 12,000 Bulgarian people perished, mostly butchered in cold blood. He was compelled to renumber the people to find that all but two of those who were above twenty when they left Egypt had perished. Lolonois had been in Campeche and was supposed to have perished in one of his forays. His example was emulated by the company sergeant major who perished in similar circumstances. With Cradock perished in this naval disaster off coronel some 1500 officers and men. He had been a pillar of strength, elementally fit to combat all the elements, else she had perished. Thus perished a man in every respect exemplary, except in the erroneousness of his faith. During the course of the unprofitable labour of waiting till he had found an exchanger who wanted coals, he might have perished. Ah, a curse was upon the hoard, for Hreidmar and Fafnir and I have perished because of it. Others, in despair, flung themselves from the walls, and for the most part perished. But while the city has perished, the hieron has, in a certain sense, come to life again. I went to dinner with the dons at the high table, and I nearly perished of the blues. Send us back into our city, and keep us there immured until we have perished of hunger. Thus, somewhat after the fashion of Kilkenny cats, perished two tyrants of the sea. Show More Sentences Had it not been for a French settlement a few miles distant the people of lockerbie would have perished during the winter. Rather wud I have perished in a logjam thin to've indured this ingratichood. Four hundred of them had fallen in the battle of Masaya, and an equally large number was supposed to have perished before Granada. In the attacks upon the Malakand position, about 700 tribesmen had perished. Had not the viewer prevented him, he would have made the attempt and perished. Grief and hunger had dried up the fountain of life in her bosom, and her unweaned child had perished of starvation. By this distemperature of weather, much cattle perished, much corn upon the ground was either destroyed, or greatly empaired. The whole of these, numbering no less than thirty, perished in this action. They attempted to cross the Vltava by a ford near the present suburb of Smichov, and many perished in the river. Whether 'the world that then was' was overflown and perished by the causes set forth, we can not tell. Zachariah of Mitylene says that more than 80,000 persons perished in the riot. About six thousand private men perished, of whom two thirds were of Piercy's army. Consider, then, the preeminence of the old world, that perished in the flood. Surely it is the smoke of the pyre on which the martyrs have but now perished! No fire that can be kindled upon the altar of speech can relume the radiant spark that perished yesterday. Kingdoms that flourished while they were but romanised, have perished since they became Tridentine. In similar fashion had the crew of the GASKET, a sandalwood trader, perished. They had ignominiously perished, and had given color to the liquid. One was the ill-starred lady who perished in the Konak in Belgrade. All those whom Raleigh had sent to Roanoke were lost or had perished. Show More Sentences No fewer than 12,000 persons had perished in the sandjak of Philippopolis! The Light Horse at 4.30 had charged across the nek and perished. It has been mentioned above that Gaulish literature has entirely perished. It was that half-witted lad then who had perished in the park. So perished the last great Hanseatic hero and with him the Hansa's power. Harvests perished like a moth that is singed in a candle-flame. He might never have reached the rio grande, but perished on the way. But he in his turn perished at the instigation of a Habsburger. Many perished because they were unable to escape buildings that lacked emergency exits and basic safety equipment such as alarms and sprinklers. It is recorded that during that triennial agitation no less than twenty-three Circles perished in domestic discord. Further, the son of Nabunaid perished, not in Babylon, but in Accad. The Franklin Dexter went ashore on the Markdale Capes and all on board perished, the Captain and three of his brothers among them. They had had to give up trying to get to the yards, and had nearly perished in a drift. Its hero is John Badby, the Lollard blacksmith, who perished at the stake. The Czar might retreat until his pursuers perished of fatigue and hunger. Recently a woman perished in the streets of a town near Madura. Our cattle, from poverty, bogged in the river, or perished from hunger. Many a mercenary perished, but finally not a boyar remained alive. If makar Makalo had perished, this revolt might never have broken out. How many, think ye, have likewise fallen into Plato's honey head, and sweetly perished there? Show More Sentences I have altogether perished from the remembrance of the living, and in the next generation my place was a blank. It was reported that the Bard had perished on the Cardiganshire Hills. Thus, then, perished all my wives, my children, my servants, and those who were within the gates in their company. He was therefore condemned, and perished on the scaffold for the crime. The condemned to death, I knew, perished usually at the autos-da-fe, and one of these had been held on the very night of the day of my trial. He set fire to the palace, and, like sardanapalus, perished in the flames. Thus perished from the earth the bulk of the sea power of Spain. His nephews, draughted into the conscription, had perished in Egypt. Barry's grandfather had perished in a dust storm in the Sahara. The others perished by fire at the fall of the ming dynasty. On that one day, more than three thousand six hundred men perished. The thought that Rima had perished, that she was lost, was unendurable. This fanciful writer pretends that its name was given to it after the passage of the Israelites, when Pharaoh perished in the waves which closed at the voice of Moses. Four had perished by mischance in the bleak, uncharted vastness. Two sows and 40 piglets perished when flames swept through the farrowing shed at Grove Farm, Sontley, near Wrexham, just after 10pm on New Year's Day. Before she turned away, Anne unpinned the little cluster of purple pansies she wore and dropped it softly on the grave of the boy who had perished in the great sea-duel. If the poor wretch waked in the flames and perished, no one cared. The fragrance of her rich and delightful character still lingered about the place where she had lived, as a dried rosebud scents the drawer where it has withered and perished. It reminded me of a sepia painting I had once seen done from the ink of a fossil Belemnite that must have perished and become fossilized millions of years ago. Find more words! 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