snuffed out
Example Sentences
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He stepped down after the 2019-20 season and was named the organization’s music director laureate but the COVID-19 pandemic snuffed out the ambitious celebrations that were to mark his triumphs .
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2026
Along with acknowledging the changes to the report, Moore also said the city failed to adequately ensure that the Jan. 1, 2025 Lachman fire was fully snuffed out.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 6, 2026
Chargers quarterback Herbert produced a near flawless performance to set up a convincing win against a Cowboys team whose postseason hopes were snuffed out by Philadelphia's win over Washington on Saturday.
From Barron's • Dec. 21, 2025
That left 27 to get with two wickets remaining but hope of an unlikely, morale-boosting victory for England was snuffed out by an unbroken ninth-wicket partnership between Zak Foulkes and Blair Tickner.
From BBC • Nov. 1, 2025
But then, the flicker is snuffed out, and in its place, hardness, and so Helmuth says, "I will go far. Just you wait and see. Some day you will hear something great about me."
From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
