Sentence examples for nearly extinguished from inspiring English sources

By the time the Knicks tipped off against the Milwaukee Bucks on Tuesday, their postseason dreams were nearly extinguished.

Except for Wildenstein, which is still at 19 East 64th Street, these fell one by one, and by the 1970s were nearly extinguished.

They overcame startling adversity during the season and in this game when injuries nearly depleted them and when Carolina's competitiveness nearly extinguished them.

Once powerful and even feared, the Pequots were nearly extinguished in one day — in fact, in just one hour — when English colonists and their Indian allies attacked and torched the main Pequot village near Mystic in the spring of 1637.

The corporate ethos has nearly extinguished the spirit of the game, but it's good to hear that in these private moments, the ghost of our public treasury, of baseball, lingers on.

The wave of newcomers from Israel is accelerating the rebirth of Jewish culture in the country that nearly extinguished it, bringing the long-lost scent of freshly baked rugelach and Hamantashen cookies back to the streets of Berlin.

As he skated around the stadium his skate caught on a cable and he fell, nearly extinguishing the flame.

A fully privatized system would lead to higher costs for mortgages, but it would also nearly extinguish the risk posed to taxpayers and would enable resources currently devoted to housing to go to more productive channels, benefitting the economy in the long run, the administration noted in a nod to the predominant Republican position.

Malthusian fears were virtually extinguished.

Jews were once a major part of central and eastern European culture which was nearly totally extinguished by the Holocaust.

Suri believed that the jihadi movement had nearly been extinguished by the drying up of financial resources, the killing or capture of many terrorist leaders, the loss of safe havens, and the increasing international coöperation among police agencies.