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"It's mainly to quench our thirst, and we have to give our animals water too," Andras, a student, told AFP.

From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026

The duke was sent to Germany to cool his ardour, but the imposed distance failed to quench the flame.

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2025

“This is a symbol of water to quench and heal the ground — for regrowth.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 2025

Through fingerlike projections that descend upon the uterine wall, it attempts to quench the embryo’s appetite for maternal blood.

From Slate ● Sep. 7, 2024

Can he quench his thirst with parchments and waxy seals?

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

Berkeley Lab scientists have developed an approach to prevent quenches altogether, rather than simply trying to manage them after they occur.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 11, 2024

There is, legitimately, no item on earth that quenches and refreshes like good ol' water — especially when you've eaten something especially heavy or you've accidentally eaten the equivalent of your body weight in candy.

From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2023

The river, which cascades from the Rockies down to the deserts of the Southwest, quenches the thirst of 40 million people in the U.S. and Mexico and sustains a $15 billion-a-year agricultural industry.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 18, 2022

Foremilk quenches the infant’s thirst, whereas hindmilk satisfies the infant’s appetite.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013

“Sooner would I believe that water burns and air quenches than that Rameses would commit blasphemy.”

From The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt by Glovatski, Alexander

I sipped on this drink during a midday walk and it kept me cool, quenched and satisfied.

From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2025

They quenched their thirst by drinking contaminated water from a nearby well.

From BBC ● Jan. 21, 2025

Other quenched galaxies in the early universe have been far more massive, but Webb's improved sensitivity allows smaller and fainter galaxies to be observed and analysed.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 6, 2024

At this point near Gennadi village, its climate change-fueled fury was only quenched by the sea.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 5, 2023

The charred sticks still lay on the rocks where the rain had quenched them but the sand by the water was smooth again.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding

It manufactures neodymium magnets by pouring liquid alloy onto a rotating, cooled disk, then rapidly quenching and pulverizing it to freeze the delicate crystalline structure at a microscopic scale before it can grow.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026

The primary solution to resolve this crisis would’ve been to pump a neutralizing agent into the problem tank, quenching it and making it no longer explosive.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2026

They are used to quenching their thirst with snow, but with little or no snowfall, they can easily get dehydrated.

From Barron's ● Feb. 10, 2026

But there was a problem: No amount of dam building seemed capable of quenching the West’s thirst for water.

From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2024

Tonight the wood filled the room with the almost imperceptible aroma of citrus and quenching iron.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss