Sentence examples for be quenched from inspiring English sources
verb
To satisfy, especially an actual or figurative thirst.
- The library quenched her thirst for knowledge.
But the movie's high spirits will not be quenched.
Even so, after the festival has run its course, the party spirit will still not be quenched.
She recognizes her own "thirst for completeness and wholeness," but becomes increasingly aware that this thirst cannot be quenched.
The period action adventure thirst can also be quenched by the better-than-it-should-be Vikings.
And what would happen if the Fed's appetite for government bonds were to be quenched?
Desire for Jerusalem is "a fire that could not be quenched".
Free radicals can be quenched in the body by compounds known as 'antioxidants', which include nutrients such as the mineral selenium.
He is a pitch-perfect devil, with Gilliam the fiery angel whose creative spark could only be quenched by the Apocalypse itself.
This clear-headed view of Iraq recognizes the tribal and religious rivalries that are centuries old and that cannot be quenched by an imposed "democracy".
Confined to their own realm, his demons will devour each other, and his own existence will be quenched.
What had started as normal intrusive thought, that most people have had (what if I jumped in front of this train?), grew into a gnawing obsession, a thirst for absolute certainty that could never be quenched.
