quenchless

Example Sentences

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Probably Longfellow came closest, noting that lighthouses are “steadfast, serene … a quenchless flame.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 22, 2017

Most people who develop diabetes are overweight, but when the disease begins, they lose weight, develop a voracious appetite, a quenchless thirst.

From Time Magazine Archive

If purity of spirit can burn away the dross of circumstance, then Maraden's Sonya is a quenchless flame, albeit a small one.

From Time Magazine Archive

The "quenchless ambition of an ordered mind" that Biographer Freeman finds in George Washington is an apt description of Freeman himself.

From Time Magazine Archive

They knew how frail was the small tenement housing Miss Judy's quenchless spirit.

From Oldfield A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century by Banks, Nancy Huston