Sentence examples for had snuffed out from inspiring English sources

No witchcraft, no enemy action had snuffed out life in this stricken world.

Neuer got such distance on his clearance that he felt he had snuffed out any trace of danger.

Moments previously, David Luiz had snuffed out a goal-threat from Ivan Perisic with an industrial challenge that took the Croatian winger out over the bye-line.

Despite Russians' assertions that they had snuffed out significant rebel resistance, Chechen guerrillas said today that they had killed six federal soldiers in Grozny.

After Robert T. Johnson, the Bronx district attorney, successfully used New York State's antiterrorism law to prosecute a gang member who had killed a 10-year-old girl in a gun battle, he said the verdict was significant in determining an appropriate punishment for someone who had "snuffed out" the life of an innocent child.

In any case, the argument might be made that, long before he died, with more than 70,000 lines of verse under his octogenarian belt, and certainly by the end of the Napoleonic wars, Wordsworth himself had snuffed out his radical spark and become an increasingly conservative thinker.

For now, Putin has snuffed out this not-quite revolution.

But they will have snuffed out an invigorating source of criticism in a cosy world.

Impending recession and selling by speculators have snuffed out the boom in commodity prices.

Kagame's critics say he has snuffed out much of Rwanda's independent media.

This shift should have snuffed out the thrill of the chase, but it hasn't.