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The unexploded ordnance, some of which was heard going off during the dayslong effort to quench the fire, made it harder for firefighters to get close to the blaze.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

"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

When it stopped raining he found a spring where he was able to quench his thirst, but he was so unwell he was unable to eat one of the snack bars he was carrying.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2025

“For a lot of people, a beverage is just to quench the thirst or get an energy boost with caffeine, so yeah maybe the tea behind it isn’t really that important for them.”

From Salon ● Jul. 31, 2025

These would-be dragonslayers might as well try to quench a fire with a spear thrust.

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

Listening to KGAY, he added, quenches “a desire for a sense of connection that was in person, that was live and public.”

From New York Times ● Feb. 7, 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

It’s home to fishers and boats, feeds rich farmlands, powers turbines and quenches local populations across its banks and delta.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 23, 2023

Further that iron is astringent, also that Chalybeate water quenches thirst: and they adduce the cooling effect of thermal iron waters.

From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by William Gilbert

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

However, the attacks quickly quenched out before any scar tissue could form.

From Science Daily ● May 22, 2024

And, finally in Cleveland, he kept teams competitive despite financial limitations and nearly quenched a championship drought in 2016 on the way to becoming the winningest manager in the club’s 123-year history.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 26, 2023

She sprinkled the whole business with holy water that was supposed to have come from a well in Jerusalem from which it was said that Jesus had once quenched His thirst.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

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 paper discusses six different approaches researchers could use to raise superconducting temperatures further, including pressure quenching.

From Science Daily ● May 27, 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 then there was a sound like quenching iron, and the wheel rung like an iron bell.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss