| The dancers are succeeded by a second threesome and then a third, all perpetuating the atmosphere of remoteness and nonengagement. |
| The point in perpetuating a person's memory is that he or she might otherwise be forgotten. |
| Governments are committed only to perpetuating and aggrandizing their own power, if need be, by trampling on the Constitution. |
| His stories have been heralded as great folk storytelling and lambasted as perpetuating racial stereotypes. |
| In spite of near-constant challenges to their survival, tortoises must nonetheless attend to the task of perpetuating the species. |
| But why risk his reputation as a scientist by perpetuating such a falsehood? |
