Sentence examples for extinguisher from inspiring English sources

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extinguisher

noun

Anything that extinguishes something; but especially a fire extinguisher

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This has to be as simple as installing a smoke detector, hanging a fire extinguisher on the wall, talking to your kids about which door to use if the stairs are burning, or even putting a rope ladder in a second-floor window.

HOW appropriate that the name of the new boss of Siemens, Europe's leading engineering group and a bastion of German capital-goods manufacturing, translates as "fire extinguisher".

Officials in Nebraska had to keep a fire extinguisher ready and an eye out for smoke coming from the prisoner's head.

Banks promise the coco bondholders will get "bailed in", to use the regulatory argot, in lieu of taxpayers.Fans describe cocos as "pre-funded rights issues", a metaphorical fire extinguisher in an otherwise tinder-like capital structure.

A fire extinguisher used to try to put out the blaze when it started appears to have been out of order.Brazilian bars typically provide a numbered ticket on entry, which is used to place orders during the night, with payment upon leaving.

Investigators say the device was made from gunpowder packed into a fire extinguisher and detonated with a timer.

Water is the most obvious, efficient, and universal fire extinguisher, but large-scale use of water in fire fighting is limited because it is usually in short supply and application methods are not adequate.

He refined a soya protein that became the basis of Aero-Foam, a foam fire extinguisher used by the U.S. Navy in World War II.

It can be formed by the thermal decomposition of chlorinated hydrocarbons; e.g., when carbon tetrachloride is used as a fire extinguisher.

Swinton had previously met him in Cannes at an official party to which they were both refused admission: "It became hilarious, and it involved trying to storm the door with a fire extinguisher.

There was a bit of a fire going on outside, which is one explanation as to why someone decided to chuck an extinguisher off the roof.

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