imperishable

Example Sentences

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"Like Sherlock Holmes, it's an imperishable myth and, really, if anyone gives you the chance to have a go at it - you have to do it," he explains.

From BBC • Oct. 30, 2024

In Mexico, far from the locus of her imperishable pain, Chaarte found moments of peace.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 7, 2024

First performed on Broadway in 1957 and brought to the screen four years later, it survives as both a time capsule and a reservoir of imperishable songs.

From New York Times • Dec. 8, 2021

When the novel was published in the mid-'70s, the composite model for this imperishable tyrant was Spain’s Francisco Franco and the rogues’ gallery of Caribbean and Latin American caudillos, or “strong men.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 2, 2021

He laced to his feet the sandals of imperishable gold which bore him swift as a breath of air over sea and earth.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton