extinguish

Example Sentences

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Firefighters were trying to extinguish the blazes in the still-smoldering rubble, while rescue workers laboured to pull victims from the debris and bulldozers tried to clear a path.

From Barron's • Apr. 8, 2026

The flames grew “exponentially” and quickly overwhelmed firefighters who rushed in to extinguish the blaze, forcing them to retreat, Wedell said.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

It will travel to a US Navy base on the island for pierside repairs, authorities said, after a blaze broke out in the laundry facility last week and took hours to extinguish.

From BBC • Mar. 18, 2026

What had begun as an initiative to put slavery on the road to extinction had been transformed into a decision to extinguish all federal plans for emancipation.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis