Verb (used without object) : to perish in an earthquake. ,an age of elegance that has forever perished. ,His valuable paintings perished in the fire. ,Save us, lest we perish.    From Dictionary.com. 

Yes, Joan perished from the dreaded “fluffy hair”!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barefootin’ : Scrubbles.net] Reference

Of their brothers and sisters have perished from the earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eve Ensler: The Gift of Cancer] Reference

And, if so, how long did it take before they perished from the earth?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Josh Goodman: What Sharia Law in Democracies Tells Us About Islam] Reference

Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)] Reference

It shows that the stout, adventurous spirit that built the Empire has not perished from the earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Canada's Indebtedness to the Motherland] Reference

That first winter was hard and more than 150 POWs perished from the cold, starvation, beatings and lack of medical care.    From Wordnik.com.  [Never Forgotten Newsletter] Reference

It is said that the stone, a red sandstone, has perished from the weather, and that the dials have suffered accordingly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Sun-Dials] Reference

Whether "government of the people, by the people, for the people" has failed Lincoln's hopes and has indeed perished from the Earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kamran Pasha: Digging Up Muslim Graves] Reference

Those who fell not by the sword perished in the flames.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Empire of Russia] Reference

Anne Frank and her sister Margot perished at Bergen-Belsen.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference

It is true, that they that rose by the sword perished by the sword.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Collection of Stories] Reference

18 And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the Lord: 19.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)] Reference

Those who kept out of the way of the sword perished by famine or pestilence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)] Reference

In doing it, he would endanger his life, for they who took the sword perished by it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barnes New Testament Notes] Reference

KING: So if you were a family member of one of those who perished, that is how they found out?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 4, 2006] Reference

Probably the man who gave it that name perished long ago, -- slain, no doubt, by the residents.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Voyage of the Hoppergrass] Reference

Miss her, Catullus? don’t be so inept to rail at what you see perish when perished is the case.    From Wordnik.com.  [Miss her, Catullus? : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference

Sir Hugh Willoughbie, with all his company perished, which is called Arzina reca, that to say, the riuer Arzina. 216.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation] Reference

He remembered what he had once heard an old preacher utter, namely, that they who rose by the sword perished by the sword.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter VII] Reference

Burke's last words were recalled again and again; he could be considered "perished," he had said, if he was not back in three months.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told]

Has counsel perished from the understanding men?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)] Reference

Instead of reading "perished" poor Mrs Niven finished the sentence with.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philosopher Jack] Reference

Six boats were abandoned or sank, and four men perished.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Sail Down Under Becomes A Storm From Hell] Reference

Many family members of those who perished passionately agree.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nearly Six Months Later] Reference

In the worst-hit areas, hundreds of children have already perished.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hunger In The Horn] Reference

After two of their five children perished, Badia's husband wandered off.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hunger In The Horn] Reference

Third, there are victims who should have lived but perished unnecessarily.    From Wordnik.com.  [What It Takes To Survive] Reference

I thought of the Australian rugby team, most of whom had perished in the explosion.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Once Peaceful Place Shattered By Terror] Reference

Since then, whole forests have perished that people might read about the S&L crisis.    From Wordnik.com.  [S&Ls: Blaming The Media] Reference

India's last major outbreak of pestilence occurred in 1950, when 18,813 people perished.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Plaque Of Panic] Reference

Before Haiti, an estimated 70,000 people perished in 2008's earthquake in Sichuan, China.    From Wordnik.com.  [Averting Disaster] Reference

The head belonged to one of 283 would-be immigrants who perished in a shipwreck in late 1996.    From Wordnik.com.  [Storming Fortress Europe] Reference

Vladimir, 15, ended up in an orphanage and then was sent to a labor camp, where he soon perished.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales From The Crypt] Reference

Many of those buried at Henri-Chapelle perished while repulsing Germans in the Ardennes or advancing across the border.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Chance to Honor Our Best Ambassadors] Reference

Last week, I had the sad honor of bringing 10 of the 12 Americans who perished in the Kenya bombing back home to U.S. soil.    From Wordnik.com.  ['We Will Not Be Intimidated'] Reference