Sentence examples for quenched from inspiring English sources

Most properties catch alight during associated ember showers and can be quenched if you're prepared with mops, buckets and pre-filled sinks and baths.

NO SOONER have the Americans quenched one fire than another flares up.

Sistani makes his move, maybe A billion thirsts quenched Elevate your hands or I ignite Reprints Related items Another push for peaceAug 30th 2004 Sudan: Crunch time in DarfurAug 26th 2004 Darfur's rebels: No angelsAug 26th 2004Sudan's woes are due in part to history, nature, and the doubling of the population since 1970 to 34m.

Sistani makes his move, maybe A billion thirsts quenched Elevate your hands or I ignite Reprints Related items Third-world water and the private sector: How not to help those in needAug 26th 2004 International water companies: The flood dries upAug 26th 2004 PricelessJul 17th 2003Every continent has improved, even Africa.

Sistani makes his move, maybe A billion thirsts quenched Elevate your hands or I ignite Reprints Related items Old grievances, fresh gravesAug 20th 2004 Congo: The battle lines are redrawn, againJun 10th 2004The transitional government has been in trouble from the start.

Sistani makes his move, maybe A billion thirsts quenched Elevate your hands or I ignite Reprints Related items A robot interpreter: Elevate your hands or I igniteAug 26th 2004 The laws of war: Trials and tribulationsAug 26th 2004The siege could still end without a bloodbath.

"When Netanyahu won," he said, "he dried the last drop of water that could quench our thirst for a state.

Cue the metaphorical version of the female high school experience, some of it obvious, all of it fun: Jennifer the literal maneater – and her monthlies really are murder; the voraciousness of a young women's newly-discovered sexual/bloodletting appetites and the utter inability of the men around her to quench them.

The £240m that Miliband wants to divert from free schools built in areas with surplus places into those with a need for more, sounds sensible, but when you set it against the £1.6bn already spent by the coalition to quench demand for places and the £1.6bn more committed going forward, you get some idea of how much bigger this problem is.

Candidates tend to play to the base of their party during the primaries, only to quench the fire and brimstone once they have secured the nomination, the better to appeal to swing voters.

In a bid to fire up the Canadian economy, the Bank of Canada also cut interest rates this week.But a weaker currency is not necessarily hard to swallow: it can help beef up exports and quench deflationary pressures.