Sentence examples for extinguished like from inspiring English sources
These people went out one night to meet friends and family, only for their lives to be extinguished like a candle; obliterated – including my sister Maxine.
How can a quiet, well-to-do suburb such as Rockaway Beach - the idyll of American normality - be suddenly extinguished like this?
At the time I thought it would be contained and extinguished like the other half dozen Ebola epidemics on the African continent, with the last major one having 425 cases in the winter of 2000.
She's a black author, 37, originally from Cameroon, whose recent novel "Tels des Astres Éteints" ("Like Extinguished Stars") is about race relations as seen through the eyes of three black immigrants.
It was Thomas's death, seen as the inevitable corollary to the way he conducted his life, that saw this self-consciously difficult poet not only bracketed with other prematurely extinguished poetic meteors like Shelley and Rimbaud, but also claimed by the emergent pop culture.
The aftermath of an extinguished protest looks like a very lonely place.
He was so disliked, he wrote a friend, that he had "divided the House into two parties one that would like to see me extinguished and the other that wouldn't be satisfied without a hand in doing it".
(Also eyeblinks are not extinguished; conditioned responses are extinguished).
He sat us down at his white Formica kitchen table that had nothing but an ashtray with a half-dozen extinguished cigarette butts that looked like accusatory arthritic fingers pointing back at us.
For 15 years, as a hospital doctor in the rural town of Tugela Ferry, in the heart of South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal province, he had watched locals with extinguished immune systems die from infections like tuberculosis, unable to give them medicine that worked.
Relighting a boiler that has been left extinguished for years, Daniel reflects that families like Felicia and Frederick's "live in their own houses like children, not knowing how things work".
