Sentence examples for extinguished for from inspiring English sources

Mr. Waterston's Lear is only a fitful flame, always on the verge of being extinguished for good.

When he announced his retirement from race-riding in 2007, what little chance Leighton Aspell stood of winning the Grand National seemed to have been extinguished for good.

Unless he does something out of this world down 18, he's going to suffer that indignity on a sixth occasion, his boyhood dream perhaps extinguished for good.

Anything less than a total ban on cloning would be unethical, he proclaimed, because "no human life should be exploited or extinguished for the benefit of another".

There is a light, Morrissey once said, that never goes out – and here it is now, flickering on and away and still burning even as it comes dangerously close to being extinguished for good.

As in, we'll all have one brief moment of glory, of celebration, of beauty and hope, burning bright like a dying sun before our lights will be extinguished for ever, as we collapse into a black hole?

My lips tasted of fire, a flame that would not extinguish for hours.

A power outage during the storm caused the Statue of Liberty torch to extinguish for the first time since 1929.

Responding to S− resulted in both stimuli disappearing from the screen and the house lights extinguishing for 5 s (see Fig. 1 d ).

Due to the size and scope of the fire (with temperatures getting so high that many air vehicles cannot safely pass over it), officials are waiting on a change in weather to either provide a break in dry air big enough for the flames to be extinguished, or for a straight-up miracle in the form of a rainstorm.

Some were caused by humans likely accidental, where flames weren't extinguished enough for the tinder-dry conditions.