Sentence examples for about to be extinguished from inspiring English sources

It's about to be extinguished, and that's not histrionic".

When war looms, the world seems about to be extinguished.

It looked as if the Davidson dream was about to be extinguished.

In 1833 Chateaubriand thought Venice was a female city situated at the water's edge about to be extinguished with the day.

He steeped himself in the sordid and the refined, the red-light bars and the villas, the decadence and the apprehension of a city whose freewheeling spirit was about to be extinguished by Nazi terror.

Ms. Samie watches her neighbors in the ghetto going through their routines -- curling their hair, making secret cupboards for bread, doing badly at their lessons -- as if "the noisy world of the bearded fathers" were not about to be extinguished.

Tells about arrangements made should the upper light have to be extinguished.

We should not allow the essential heart beat of the people to be extinguished by snotty and snooty elitist attitudes about who we are.

The fire in his belly seemed to be extinguished.

The Kings' flickering playoff chances are close to being extinguished.

However, the successful implementation of civil rights legislation in the 1960s eventually inspired people to start thinking about racism as something that might be extinguished, or at least contained.