- present participle of perish.
perishing
Example Sentences
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They looked absolutely freezing, which was not a surprise as it was a perishing January night in Lancashire.
From BBC ● Jan. 7, 2026
All that’s clear is massive landmarks are perishing and that you need to run.
From Salon ● Apr. 26, 2024
The young meat-eater had chomped off the hind legs of two parrot-like dinosaurs called caenagnathids before perishing itself.
From National Geographic ● Dec. 8, 2023
Levin yelled out into the roar, anything to take his mind off the thought of perishing in a landslide.
From Slate ● Nov. 26, 2022
“When a man’s alone on these flats, with a light head and a light stomach, perishing of cold and want, he hears nothin’ all night, but guns firing, and voices calling.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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