Sentence examples for perished was from inspiring English sources

The oak tree at the base of which they are said to have perished was struck by lightning in 1879.

Dankawalie was burned down, and an uncle, one of many relatives who perished, was said to be the first person killed in the bloodshed that followed.

However, a mine blast in north-west Sri Lanka on January 29th, in which 11 schoolchildren perished, was blamed on government soldiers.Since 1983 the war has killed some 70,000 people.

Not quite sure what to make of the allegorical Greek goddesses at the close but the distribution of blankets for the prisoners while the audience perished was a neat reversal.

A monument commemorating those who perished was constructed in 1975 and stood for fifteen years before being removed in 1990 prior to the outbreak of ethnic violence during the Croatian War of Independence.

In their headquarters the future Polish national anthem—"Jeszcze Polska nie zginęła" ("Poland Has Not Yet Perished")—was sung for the first time.

Most of those who perished were burned to death.

Why the early dinosaurs survived while the crurotarsans perished is not known, said Whiteside.

A simple memorial with the names of all of the people who perished is enough.

Although some 20m Pakistanis may be affected, the official count of those known to have perished is 1,475.

'Tis said the number of the ships destroyed was little short of three hundred; and the men who perished were more than twenty thousand.