Sentence examples for nearly perished from inspiring English sources

· Not everyone would go back for their hols to the place where they nearly perished the year before.

At one point, he said, he nearly perished when the Sea-Doo sputtered and began to sink.

Buzheninova and Kvasnik nearly perished after spending the night in the ice bed… Tells about the fad for ice sculpture that bloomed in Russia in the 1980s.

His own stunts were often extraordinarily dangerous; he nearly perished from a fall in Armour of God (1986) that fractured his skull and impaired his hearing.

John Wesley Powell, the one-armed explorer of the Colorado Basin, nearly perished there on June 18 , 1869 while scaling 1,010-foot-tall 1,010-foot-tall 1,010-foot-tall

In its spoken form, Yiddish nearly perished in the Holocaust; for many today, the sound of mamaloshen, or the mother tongue, contains both sweetness and sorrow.

After the move they encounter all manner of hardships during the next few years and nearly perish in a flood.

James even constructs a soundless piano, with moving keys, so that Peggy can learn to play – a task that becomes an obsession, and takes up time he should be spending preparing for winter, which means they nearly perish from cold and malnutrition.

He almost perishes in the desert and nearly drowns in a turbulent river.

Nearly 2,000 have perished in the sea crossings, almost 10 times the number of deaths from the same period last year.

Relentless monsoon rains touched off severe flooding; nearly 600 persons perished.