Sentence examples for a snuffed from inspiring English sources

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Danger lurks in every corner — a can of Red Bull, an apple with a knife in it, a snuffed candle — and candy proliferates: on the floor, in a boy's mouth.

When Gulbis had his most impressive run in a slam, at Roland Garros in 2014, he blazed all the way to the semi-finals – where he ran into Djokovic and the fire went out like a snuffed candle.

There, a first-born child may run inside full of life and, after a literally breathtaking sound, reappear as only a small limp hand falling out a doorway, or be represented by a snuffed candle on a windowsill.

When their joyful abandon is abruptly ended by Serebryakov's refusal to allow Yelena to play the piano — one of the most finely calibrated moments in any of Chekhov's plays — the warmth that suddenly suffused the room goes out like a snuffed candle.

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Craig compares her to a snuffed-out match, but the metaphor isn't quite right.

I didn't know that Andrew had a snuff film.

He has a travelling box and a snuff box.

"It was essentially a snuff movie," he says.

Watching it doesn't feel like pressing play on a snuff video, but it is sickening.

Didn't one of us on purpose set out to make a snuff movie".

"If Only I" is the emotional equivalent of a snuff film.

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