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

The global scientific consensus is that most coral reefs would perish at warming of 1.5C above preindustrial levels -- a threshold just years away.

From Barron's • Oct. 12, 2025

He is the 18th person known to have died in the Eaton fire, and the only victim to perish east of Lake Avenue.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 30, 2025

The man who might have been a bigamist, who might have had two sons perish as part of the Forty-Eighth.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse