Sentence examples for to extinguish from inspiring English sources

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to extinguish

verb

To put out, as in fire; to end burning; to quench

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They tended to extinguish easily.

It is used to extinguish fires.

This makes them incredibly difficult to extinguish.

Nations are very much harder to extinguish.

Meanwhile, the battle to extinguish her memory continues.

It was like trying to extinguish fire with a blowtorch.

We were unable to extinguish the lust for propriety.

It took two hours to extinguish the blaze.

He had to extinguish the ability to imagine anything.

Such fuels, ordinarily slow to kindle, are difficult to extinguish.

And like Dresden's fires, it seems impossible to extinguish.

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