Sentence examples for but extinguished from inspiring English sources

Life on the edge not merely punished, but extinguished.

Then 70 years of Communism all but extinguished Jewish life and religious instruction, leaving in its wake an ingrained anti-Semitism.

And then, eventually, without a word, when the desire to leave was all but extinguished, we began walking back to the car.

But Mets Manager Jerry Manuel is keeping Parnell in the rotation for the rest of the season because, with the Mets' playoff hopes all but extinguished, he is searching for candidates to fill out the rotation next season.

The DNA of modern Europeans tells of an invasion by near-eastern farmers at least 6,000 years ago that all but extinguished evidence of Europe's original hunter-gatherers, and of a subsequent vast and continuous westward movement of peoples.

It has been a run which has all but extinguished hopes of making the play-offs and leaves them 13 points adrift of the top five with eight games to go.

But it was a largely comfortable afternoon for Pulis - with the relegation fears he inherited when he replaced Alan Irvine at the start of the year now appearing to be all-but extinguished.

On Thursday night, there was little more James could do as the Heat's dreams of an historic "threepeat" were all-but-extinguished by the sensational San Antonio Spurs, who, with a 107-86 matling athehe American Airlines Arena, moved into a 3-1 lead in the best-of-seven NBA Finals series.

Extinction procedures in the clinic can suppress conditioned responses to drug cues, but the extinguished responses typically reemerge after exposure to the drug itself (reinstatement), the drug-associated environment (renewal), or the passage of time (spontaneous recovery).

It is like a wisp of flame, almost but not quite extinguished.

"May it never be extinguished!" But even as the right swooned, the left did, too.