How to Use perdition in a Sentence

perdition

noun
  • But simply waiting for their arrival puts us on the road to perdition.
    — Marin Gjaja, Fortune, 8 Dec. 2020
  • Neither electric cars nor a bullet train will save people from a pyrrhic perdition.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2017
  • Critics can, however, do a certain amount of good on their way to perdition.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2017
  • Sloth, after all, is a deadly sin, and it was often seen as the first step on the slippery slope to perdition.
    — JSTOR Daily, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Jeff, Bobby’s lone sibling, had to force his way through the perdition of survivor’s guilt.
    — Jennifer Senior, The Atlantic, 9 Aug. 2021
  • The report outlined three major steps in Backpage’s road to perdition.
    — Christine Biederman, WIRED, 18 June 2019
  • Or did Christ die only for us, leaving any other creatures to a kind of limbo or perdition?
    — Amelia Soth, JSTOR Daily, 27 June 2024
  • Only one run, however, was earned during the fourth inning, or, better known as the road to perdition.
    — John Henry, star-telegram, 25 Sep. 2017
  • Morels even more blatantly favor drama, thriving on tree death, soil disturbance, fire and perdition.
    — Heather Arndt Anderson, Sunset Magazine, 13 Feb. 2020
  • Morels even more blatantly favor drama, thriving on tree death, soil disturbance, fire and perdition.
    — Heather Arndt Anderson, Sunset Magazine, 31 Jan. 2020
  • My road to perdition was the seemingly noble cause of doing computer science research in the real world.
    — Bruce Sterling, WIRED, 9 June 2010
  • The road to perdition in the technology business is littered with ideas that sounded great in concept but flopped in execution.
    — Peter Grant, WSJ, 29 May 2018
  • As the symbolism abounds on this dusty road to perdition, the excesses of the piece invite the actors to indulgent performances.
    — Theodore P. Mahne, NOLA.com, 31 July 2017
  • Hence, the nation to them is not all holy, a thing inviolate and inviolable, a thing that a man dare not sell or dishonour on pain of eternal perdition.
    — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 7 Sep. 2020
  • Part of Sookee’s journey is one from perdition into opulence, from a lowly thieves’ den into the sumptuousness of the mansion.
    — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2016
  • They can never be reconciled because of the chasm that separates those who deserve salvation and those who deserve perdition — namely, the deplorables.
    — Joshua Mitchell, National Review, 26 Oct. 2017
  • Although Adolf Hitler met his road to perdition, Joseph Stalin survived and extended his despotism.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Of all the threats looming over the planet today, one of the most alarming is the seemingly inexorable descent of the world’s oceans into ecological perdition.
    — Alan B. Sielen, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2013
  • But the barrier between life and death is no less permeable than those between childhood and adulthood, or dreams and reality, or a world of perdition and a hidden paradise.
    — Maya Phillips, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2023
  • Like these earlier explorers of perdition, Peterson found wisdom through his harrowing trek.
    — Jeet Heer, The New Republic, 21 May 2018
  • The perdition market did not respond to Newsweek's request for comment asking if an announcement like FanDuel's would follow.
    — Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Its crowdedness seems to amplify the collective anxiety of the artists witnessing, resisting and, at times, celebrating their road to perdition.
    — Jason Farago, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Robinson’s fiction investigates, again and again, the connection between loneliness and perdition, between the soul’s isolation and its torment.
    — Jordan Kisner, The Atlantic, 11 Sep. 2020
  • Appropriately for a fantasy of perdition suited to this nihilistic century, the logic of eternal punishment remains opaque.
    — Elisa Gonzalez, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
  • Leading the way to political perdition is the American Republican Party.
    — Garry Kasparov, The New York Review of Books, 28 Jan. 2020
  • California policymakers continue to make laws and allow regulators to contrive rules that make California a land of perdition rather than destination for enterprise because they have been captured by left-of-center interests.
    — Kerry Jackson, Oc Register, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Under cover of awkward teen dancing, the pair slipped into the library, riffled through the card catalog, and discovered, in addition to Soul on Ice, eight other volumes in PONY-U perdition.
    — Literary Hub, 25 June 2026

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