extinguish

Example Sentences

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It would extinguish a radical experiment with an ugly shadow stretching from Lebanon to Indonesia.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

Projections last year from the New York Fed showed the Fed could have operating profits this year, and that it could extinguish the deferred asset by the end of the decade.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

The oil wells set ablaze in Kuwait in the 1990s during the first Gulf War took months to extinguish and released an estimated 130 to 400 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent.

From Barron's • Mar. 15, 2026

The household matriarch, Sylvia, 64, said it took them five hours of dousing with buckets to extinguish the flames.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2026

That’s when a chorus of bells sounds from out behind the house, and I quickly extinguish the lantern.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland