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How to use extinguish in a sentence

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Most periods of limitation do not extinguish the claimant's right but merely bar his remedy.
The hydrants were not working and the hoses the fire officers were using to extinguish the blaze were riddled with holes.
If you leave such a cigarette in an ashtray unattended, it will extinguish itself.
Fortunately the candles were all new and very tall, so no one was forced to make a mad grab for the aspergilla and extinguish the bouquets.
Efforts to extinguish the blaze were hampered by the large amount of flammable material inside the building.
For Quentin, for Maggie, and for me and mine, I'll extinguish the life out of you!
Attempts were made to extinguish the flames with a fire hose from an adjacent building, but to no avail.
Moreover, one party cannot simply extinguish its responsibility by transferring custody to another.
The fire brigade soon had the blaze under control and were able to extinguish it swiftly.
But the incredibly strong urge to make connections, to avoid being alone, is difficult to extinguish.
But then, this is nirvana for these gamers, whose eyes gleam with menace as they extinguish yet another virtual life.
After cooling the staircase and considerable spalling of the plaster work ceased, crews continued upstairs to finally extinguish the first floor.
Through this project, the EMS set up bucket brigades that trained community members to extinguish fires.
Such visual adverts seek to mobilise hopes which their very existence has helped extinguish.
You might remember the Queensland Act, purported to extinguish native title interests.
The government's strong-arm tactics may squelch protests, but they don't extinguish yearnings for freedom.
Luckily I smelled the noxious fumes, ran upstairs and managed to extinguish it.
The western border of the fire had been contained and CALM was waiting for the fire to extinguish itself.
Members of the public, armed with stirrup pumps and dustbin lids, then extinguish a further specimen.
The use of stirrup pumps and sand to extinguish incendiary bombs was demonstrated by the fire brigade.
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As he relit the light in the night lamp, O'Hana went up to the butsudan to extinguish the lights there.
Her magnificent eyes shone out like brasiers, though every now and then a cloud seemed to veil and extinguish them.
I shall administer a soporific to these men, and then shall extinguish the light.
It is a very physical business, squeezing out or overlaying the spiritual in men, though powerless wholly to extinguish it.
Governor dorp was himself in the fort, straining every nerve to extinguish the flames, and to hold this most important position.
A man came to extinguish the lamps on the Place de la roquette, and an anaemic-looking sky spread its pale light over us.
You had no other nostrum for tranquillity but to extinguish life.
It must not be supposed that the doctor could entirely extinguish his cylinder, during these halts.
He also asked the military to deploy more troops to extinguish the massive forest fire in the nation.
I sprang to my feet and took immediate measures to extinguish the flames.
The villagers were summoned to extinguish fires by ringing of bells.
Jealousy evermore blows the flame it seems formed to extinguish.
Let us beware how we extinguish the feeblest of youth's idealisms.
Nobody shall extinguish the fire in the heart of the mongols!
At the hour of curfew, he was bound to extinguish his lamp, and we perceive how much he was favored, in being allowed to keep it burning even till then.
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