Sentence examples for long extinguished from inspiring English sources

About the time Rose beat Sprewell and everyone downcourt for a dunk, it was long extinguished.

The fire is long extinguished and the ruins cooled, but in an indication of the disaster's severity, the recovery and decontamination effort — on a scale Quebec has rarely seen — has erased relatively little of the destruction.

Though long extinguished as acceptable political thought, it never entirely lost its aura in France or its literary prestige: the influence of Charles Maurras, the leader and philosopher of the extreme right-wing Action Française, on the early thought of T. S. Eliot is famous.

The stress of his job had long since extinguished his sense of humour.

The blaze of headlines has long been extinguished, but the ashes still sear the hearts of the dead man's family.

Joshua Love of Pitchfork Media said that the album "seems to suggest in its tossed-off 37 minutes that Pearl Jam have no greater concern and regard for what they do than the rest of the world can muster," and he added that "with the spotlights long since extinguished, Pearl Jam seem content to do things by the book".

If three other results had also gone their way, the Giants (9-7) would have slipped into the playoffs at the last breath, but that longest of long shots was extinguished early on.

City and fire officials tried to explain why such a contained fire was taking so long to extinguish.

Meanwhile, though the search has continued for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane, relatives' hopes of a safe landing have long since been extinguished.

The cauldron flame may have been extinguished long ago but the spirit of London 2012 returned to the Olympic Park today, as the London Aquatic Centre opened its doors to the public for the first time.

Having already won the CIS Insurance Cup and remained strong contenders for the Premier League title, the Scottish Cup and the Uefa Cup, it has been an extraordinarily rewarding campaign for a club who, this time 12 months ago, had long since been extinguished on every front.