It was as though his village had been snuffed out by the heavy snowfall, all signs of life extinguished.
The amount of life extinguished in well-meaning animal shelters has plummeted almost as quickly as we have been able to spend on our pets.
I've seen the bright flame of life extinguished far before the wax was all melted, far before the wick was burnt to oblivion.
When finally only the little doll was left in darkness under the table, a life seemed extinguished.
"Khalil had moved to Sheffield for a new life, yet his life was extinguished and he was denied the chance to settle down, get married, have children.
When a child's life is extinguished, an important part of our hope in the future also dies.
On the streets of America, yet again, a young life is extinguished by the arm of the state, a person of color perishes at the hands of a white oppressor, a martyr is created and justice is barely upheld.
"Enemies of the people" confess because of torture or a desire to protect families (often killed or exiled anyway); but also, sometimes, out of a conviction that conniving in their own deaths will help the Party.Then there is the carnage and heroism of the war and the wartime hopes of a better life, soon extinguished by yet more famine and repressions.
Now, more than half a century after its life was extinguished, the avenue is a corpse of its former self, a no man's land of seedy strip malls and dreary Soviet-era housing blocks.
At the age of 17, his life was extinguished by a hail of bullets on April 22 as he hung out with friends on a street corner in the South Bronx, just four blocks from where his father was murdered.
