Sentence examples for long perished from inspiring English sources

The phrase "long perished" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe something or someone that has been gone or destroyed for a long time. Example sentence: The ancient temple had long perished, leaving only crumbling ruins in its wake.

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The victims' flesh had long perished, so at first the investigators thought the tubes were restraints.

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Long, long ago perished the trees.

By Elizabeth Coatsworth The New Yorker, October 6, 1934 P. 86 Long, long ago perished the trees View Article By Malcolm Gladwell By Rivka Galchen By David Remnick By Jia Tolentino.

Many of the websites and blogs now abuzz with news and comment will have long since perished.

Any semblance of a rubber grip had long since perished to leave the bare and blackened twine wound round the cane handle.

Although the virus has long since perished, Dr. Kawaoka and his colleagues were able to recreate it because the composition of its genes had been reconstructed from the preserved tissue of victims.

Bulgaria needed only a draw, had not lost at home in three and a half years, had already beaten Belgium, Luxembourg and the Republic of Ireland in Sofia and the visitors' qualification hopes had long since perished.

The deadly deed is now done, after all: the animals that were (presumably) farmed and killed to make the coats have long ago perished so why waste the resource they were slaughtered to make?

The coins of Athens preserve representations of many statues famous in antiquity that have long since perished, such as the Athena Parthenos of Phidias; the great Athena Promachos on the Acropolis, visible far out at sea; or the Dionysus of Alcamenes, possibly a pupil of Phidias.

"Many humans are under the impression that the Cthulhu for America movement is a joke candidacy, like Vermin Supreme – a way for people disgusted by a political system that has long since perished to voice a vote for a greater evil to end the status quo and the world," says Eminence Waite, sighing in a way that makes you think she's been asked this question many times before.

His insights into the nature of love don't apply just to a world that perished long ago; they're timeless, or will last as long as we are stirred by stories of disastrous passion.

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