Sentence examples for extinguished from inspiring English sources

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extinguished

verb

Past of extinguish

  • The cowboys extinguished the fire.

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State news agency RIA Novosti later reported that the fire had been almost completely extinguished.

After a successful day on the water on Friday for the British sailing team Saturday afternoon proved a disappointment as the duo's podium hopes were extinguished.

No one was injured and the flames were extinguished in less than an hour, but one of three buildings was destroyed.

A memorial sits outside, candles arranged in a crucifix are extinguished.

On Thursday the lord chancellor and justice secretary, Jack Straw, extinguished the ancient right of every citizen to a coroner's inquest in open court in the event of an unexplained death.

"I had a much longer holiday than usual, which was delightful … it's completely different to what I was doing because previously there was - well, not necessarily a routine, but a treadmill, a pattern of work that extinguished almost everything else".

Any lingering taste for fixed exchange rates was then extinguished in the crises of the 1990s.But that's not actually right.

This usually involves having the breaker generate an arc across the contacts with a voltage greater than the line voltage, and then arranging for the breaker to dissipate all the energy in the line until the arc is extinguished.

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