inextinguishable

Example Sentences

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Being at home is a ritual, as religious, in its way, as remembering the Maccabees’ inextinguishable lamp or the exodus from Egypt.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 11, 2025

The images of daily life amid destruction and rubble — children, bicyclists, workers, laundry drying from high floors in a half-destroyed building — hint at an inextinguishable flame carrying on through a campaign of death.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2025

“To blind hatred, we will always oppose the inextinguishable thirst for teaching. The thirst for knowledge. The thirst for living free,” he added.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 16, 2023

"We will always counter blind hatred with the inextinguishable thirst to teach. The thirst to learn. The thirst to live freely".

From Reuters • Oct. 16, 2023

In all sports, they lacked his inextinguishable fierceness, his hunger for games.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy