perdition

Example Sentences

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“When you save your country from the perdition of the people like the NPAs and drugs, you are doing a sacred duty,” he said, referring to communist New People’s Army insurgents.

From Seattle Times

Within the ranks of Trump’s “Make America Great Again” disciples are people who believe he is all that stands between them and an earthly perdition where their version of Christianity is on the ropes.

From Washington Post

For several months and the duration of the essay, Wang believes that she is dead, trapped “in perdition” and “doomed to wander forever in a world that was not mine.”

From The New Yorker

Wang, who once hallucinated that she was trapped in perdition, is an implicitly trustworthy guide to this netherworld of psychosis and chronic illness.

From Washington Post

“They always find excuses,” he added, “including intellectual and spiritual excuses, to progress unperturbed on the path to perdition.”

From New York Times