Sentence examples for which perished from inspiring English sources
After a 40-day siege of Ferghana, the Chinese collected 3,000 horses, 2,000 of which perished on the return journey.
The Louvre curator Jean-Luc Martinez points out that only two other stone heads from this early school of Greek art were previously known, one of which perished in Berlin under World War II bombs.
Goodbye to All That, the title of Robert Graves' memoir about the squalor and agony of the Somme, bade good riddance to the lying pomp of patriotism and military glory, which perished in the trenches.
In "Hoichi," a gifted blind musician (played by a live actor) lives with a priest in a Buddhist temple built to appease the spirits of the Heiki clan, which perished at sea 700 years earlier in a bloody battle with another clan.
IN HIS PROPOSAL for reforming the curriculum at William and Mary College in Virginia, Thomas Jefferson wrote that it should nurture "those talents which nature has sown as liberally among the poor as the rich, but which perish without use, if not sought for and cultivated".
In tissue engineering, vascularization of implanted scaffolds is often inadequate, and this seriously obstructs the survival of cells, which perish due to a lack of oxygen and nutrients, and insufficient removal of waste products.
Larken is seeking funds to refurbish the ship; Wolseley was the commander of an Egyptian campaign in which Rawson perished famously.
The most prominent feature on the grounds is a monument to fallen Confederate soldiers, whose virtues "plead for just judgment of the cause in which they perished".
It is to remember that they died, the men and women of this community, in their thousands, in faraway lands, interred in the ground upon which they perished.
Fall now lasts later into the year and spring arrives earlier, and more of the smaller lambs, which once perished in winter, now survive to their first birthday.
They were back in 1973, but just as three years earlier, at the same corner on which Courage perished, Roger Williamson crashed, his car flipped over and caught fire, trapping him in the blazing vehicle.
