perish

Example Sentences

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Evolution occurs through random variation and natural selection: The strong survive and reproduce; the weak perish.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 9, 2026

Instead, there are scores of planets and moons where humans, if exposed to local conditions without life support, would perish immediately.

From Slate • Dec. 9, 2025

"However, a much more severe disease arrives, one that improved varieties are normally more resistant to... and the local varieties perish, or perhaps don't produce fruit," he told AFP.

From Barron's • Nov. 14, 2025

In the platypus attendant's logbook, the interns found evidence that his rations en route were being decreased as some of the worms began to perish.

From BBC • Aug. 2, 2025

And if you don’t, the gods will die, the world we know will perish, and everyone from your old life will be destroyed.

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan