How to Use perdition in a Sentence

perdition

noun

• Jeff, Bobby’s lone sibling, had to force his way through the perdition of survivor’s guilt.
  — Jennifer Senior, The Atlantic, 9 Aug. 2021
• But simply waiting for their arrival puts us on the road to perdition.
  — Marin Gjaja, Fortune, 8 Dec. 2020
• And not the fire and brimstone Old Testament perdition.
  — Damon Young, Washington Post, 6 June 2022
• Critics can, however, do a certain amount of good on their way to perdition.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2017
• The report outlined three major steps in Backpage’s road to perdition.
  — Christine Biederman, WIRED, 18 June 2019
• 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
• Neither electric cars nor a bullet train will save people from a pyrrhic perdition.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Morels even more blatantly favor drama, thriving on tree death, soil disturbance, fire and perdition.
  — Heather Arndt Anderson, Sunset Magazine, 13 Feb. 2020
• Moss’s factual, point-by-point analysis of New York’s perdition is based in context: Like the city, each event, person, and place exists in relation to what stands before, after, and beside it.
  — Amy Rose Spiegel, New Republic, 27 July 2017
• 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
• 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
• Like these earlier explorers of perdition, Peterson found wisdom through his harrowing trek.
  — Jeet Heer, The New Republic, 21 May 2018
• Leading the way to political perdition is the American Republican Party.
  — Garry Kasparov, The New York Review of Books, 28 Jan. 2020

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024