Sentence examples for extinguished from from inspiring English sources

"As lamps are extinguished from too much oil, so is the mind from too much studying".

But the steely rasp had returned to his voice, and he turned from the window at last, the sickly light of doubt extinguished from his gaze.

Under the noses of Scottish Natural Heritage, which likes to be known as the nation's leading conservation body, the Scottish wildcat has all but been extinguished from the Highlands.

A related question — how life begins after it has been extinguished from a patch of the earth — not only can be answered with confidence, but can even be witnessed in real time.

All I know for sure right now is that too soon, too young, a bright light has been extinguished from the world.

As earth-based indigenous people are extinguished from the face of the Earth, it has become increasingly clear that human extinction is an issue we must address in all contexts: moral, philosophical, and scientific.

It has never quite been able to extinguish from its conscience Khomeini's rallying of the masses against the shah with calls for freedom.

As Burlingame put it in a glowing letter to Secretary of State William Seward: "Let this wish, though unexecuted, find worthy record in the archives of his native land, to show that neither self-exile, nor foreign service, nor the incidents of a stormy life could extinguish from the breast of this wandering child of the republic the fires of a truly loyal heart".

"We're the creators of the world's first and only real-flame candle you can light and extinguish from your smartphone," writes the company's co-founder and CEO.

Jen hopes the question, what do you want to be when you grow up?, extinguishes from our cultural lexicon.

Acknowledging that two states (North Carolina and Rhode Island) still had not ratified and that many still had serious reservations, Madison said that "It will be a desirable thing to extinguish from the bosom of every member of the community, any apprehensions that there are those among his countrymen who wish to deprive them of the liberty for which they valiantly fought and honorably bled".