perished
Example Sentences
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He said Farage's words had "hit hard" because his grandparents had escaped Nazi Germany and much of their family had perished in the Holocaust.
From BBC
Some perished after the fire — overwhelmed and confused by the trauma.
From Los Angeles Times
Huge numbers perished in the Holocaust, yet even immediately after the war Yiddish was the pre-eminent language among the world's Jews.
From Barron's
Or patients who perished from treatable infections for lack of antibiotics and proper dressings for wounds.
From Los Angeles Times
A strength of “The Gales of November” is the way Mr. Bacon weaves in the stories of the crewmen who perished when the Edmund Fitzgerald went down.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
