Sentence examples for extinguished only by from inspiring English sources

The Wrath of Khan – an inscrutable, unctuous thing fuelled by pouting, intimidation and announcements of the "and now you will have to answer to God!" genus – blazed brightly and was extinguished only by the arrival of a collapsing ceiling and Masood's right fist.

As he and his roommate stumbled through the choking smoke at 4 30 a.m., they passed a student whose body had been seared by flames that firefighters had extinguished only moments earlier.

And Rio's Olympic flame was extinguished only six months ago.

The fire was extinguished only after six days.

His bright flame for learning became extinguished only with his passing.

In post-Saddam Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's al-Qaida offshoot fanned the flames of a Sunni-Shia sectarian war that was only extinguished by the US army's "surge" and General Petraeus's "Awakening" campaign, which overwhelmed the jihadis temporarily.

They were extinguished with only minor damage.

Mr Justice Lightman ruled that the: "Public Right of Navigation [PRN] may only be extinguished by legislation or exercise of statutory powers or by destruction of the subject matter of PRN eg through silting up of the watercourse".

I only know that my excitement about watching Alita: Battle Angel has been almost entirely extinguished by the fact that the lead character looks like the result of a drunken bunk-up between a robot and a bush baby.

Black lives are flippantly extinguished, not least by cops, by state representatives, by law and order.

The redemptive power of connection will flicker, for a brief moment, in candlelight -- only to be extinguished by reality.