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UK
/pˈɛɹɪʃəbəl/
]
[ US /ˈpɛɹɪʃəbəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈpɛɹɪʃəbəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
liable to perish; subject to destruction or death or decay
this minute and perishable planet
perishable foods such as butter and fruit
NOUN
- food that will decay rapidly if not refrigerated
How To Use perishable In A Sentence
- But of time and of becoming shall the best similes speak: a praise shall they be, and a justification of all perishableness! Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none
- But what is wonderful about him - what saves him, glorifies him and makes him special - is the imperishable cultural truth that you can take a Frenchman out of France but you cannot take France out of a Frenchman.
- With the focus, by and large, turning to door delivery, in the case of consumer durables as well as perishables, the location factor has been obscured.
- He says it pains him to see workers at the store throw out unsold perishables like roasted chicken at the end of the night. Grocery Store Workers Go On Hunger Strike Over Stagnant Wages
- Inside were all of the perishable food items along with a flagon of milk.
- While you work, pack perishables in an insulated cooler or a container lined with ice packs.
- Staff have organised two trolley loads of perishable food for the hospice and Santa will be picking up the presents.
- Because it is 'perishable' - generally reaching peak maturity after 25 years before declining This is Money | Home
- They are infinite, I am thinking, all these hungry, grasping people chasing after the new and improved, the super and imperishable, and I stand alone against them - but that's the kind of thinking that led me astray all those years ago.
- And is his love so imperishable that, when others deal treacherously with us, he never fails to be loyal?