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

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

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

His school held terrifying air-raid drills, and in each classroom was a large bucket of sand—to be used to extinguish fires sparked by incendiary bombs.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin