perdition

Example Sentences

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If so, which people are allowed in and which are banished to perdition, if not sentenced to be annihilated?

From Salon • Jul. 29, 2023

It’s Torquemada, he’s been told, Who’s here to damn him to perdition.

From Washington Post • Jul. 21, 2022

But that’s really just another way of saying the company is still losing millions buying movie tickets, with no obvious path out of financial perdition.

From Slate • May 8, 2018

Its crowdedness seems to amplify the collective anxiety of the artists witnessing, resisting and, at times, celebrating their road to perdition.

From New York Times • Apr. 5, 2018

“You don’t know that for sure. And for crying out loud, don’t you know what perdition means?”

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool