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• Napoleon’s ashes are not yet extinguished, and we’re breathing in their sparks.From the entry ash
• The cowboys buried their trash next to the extinguished fire.From the entry extinguished
• It is easily demonstrable that water extinguishes fire.From the entry demonstrable
• As such, it has now joined the long list of 'ghost trains', extinguished by the ongoing war.2024 September 4, Vitali Vitaliev, “A salute to Ukraine's 'Second Army'”, in RAIL, number 1017, page 47. From the entry ghost train
• That case established for the first time that aboriginal title had not been extinguished.2020 February 20, Nancy MacDonald, “‘That’s not the way of our ancestors’: Wet’suwet’en matriarch speaks out about pipeline conflict”, in…. From the entry Witsuwit'en
• Whoever thought of spaffing to extinguish campfires anyway (?), you idjit.2000, Hateplot, “dumb dumb”, in alt.comedy.standup (Usenet). From the entry idjit
• Two wildlife sanctuaries extinguished another, longer held, appetite – to meet Australia’s fauna.1973 April 5, Dick Glovsky, “Brisbane: Calm, Quiet And Cuddly Koalas”, in The Newton Graphic, page two, column 2. From the entry pentacolored
• Polaroids over the eyepieces are orientated so extinguish the inner halves of the exit pupils.1970, Journal of Entomology: General Entomology, volume 45, page 70. From the entry polaroid
• Firefoam is a fire smothering, fire extinguishing foam which covers all burning objects like a blanket.1920, R. B. Foster, J.L. Newman, Petroleum Magazine, page 61. From the entry foamite
• These fires can be extinguished with water spray, alcohol-resistant foam, light water, vaporising liquids ("Halons"), carbon dioxide and dry powder.2014, John R. Ridley, Safety at Work, →ISBN, page 504. From the entry light water
• And at the apex of their glory, they are extinguished.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Virmire. From the entry apex
• She whipped up the cards on the floor, extinguished an unglobed candle, and ruffled open the pages of Claude's copybook.2001, Allen Kurzweil, A Case of Curiosities. From the entry copybook
• It can also be used for class C fires where the nonconductivity of the extinguishing agent is important.2000, A Keith Furr, CRC handbook of laboratory safety. From the entry nonconductivity
• Must the sun be extinguished and reignited a thousand times?1997, Carleton Bulkin, transl., Hidden History, Twisted Spoon Press, translation of Skryté dějiny by Otokar Březina, →ISBN, page 132. From the entry centimillennium
• The annual variation of precipitation shows a clear summer maximum which, however, becomes weaker or is nearly extinguished in Northwest China.1988, Manfred Domrös, Peng Gongbing, “Climate Zones of China”, in The Climate of China, Springer-Verlag, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 262. From the entry Bayan Mod
• While this ancillary thought explains evil in the world, it also completely extinguishes the good and introduces pandemonism instead of pantheism.1987, Friedrich Schelling in Ernst Behler, Philosophy of German Idealism, p. 235. From the entry pandemonism
• Then whatever is placed therein and lighted, whether wood or iron, cannot be extinguished except with vinegar or sand."1966 October 16, "The Fabulous Monarchs of Britain: Medieval Version of the Napalm Bomb", Chicago Tribune, Sect. 1A, p. 12. From the entry Persian gum
• All lights are automatically extinguished at daylight by light-sensitive relay.1963 August, “The semi-automatic Tees Yard of the North Eastern Region”, in Modern Railways, page 124. From the entry light-sensitive
• The caterpillars may be trapped in their tents in early morning or late afternoon and extinguished with a swabful of kerosene.1902 June 1, “Spraying”, in Woodland & Roadside, volume 1, number 2, page 3. From the entry swabful
• The fire broke out in the 40-year-old building in Kaohsiung's Yancheng district in the early hours of the morning and was extinguished around dawn.2021 October 14, Ben Blanchard, “More than 40 feared dead in fire in southern Taiwan”, in Peter Graff, editor, Reuters, archived from the…. From the entry Yancheng
• A smoke diver is considered an “interior attack firefighter” specially trained to carry out rescues and extinguish flames while wearing a self-contained breathing apparatus.2020 July 23, Mark Webber, “Smoke Diver: Gruner completes challenging course in emergency response and disaster training”, in The Republic. From the entry smoke diver
• Then he slept, and with the warmth and humour of his eyes extinguished, his features relapsed into a taciturn mask, ironical, brutal, and cold.1953, Ian Fleming, “The Secret Agent”, in Casino Royale, London: Pan Books, published 1955, page 13. From the entry police positive
• Secondly, the fire detectors will immediately call the fire extinguishing crew who have at their disposal smoke diver equipment and extinguishing material.1952, Ingeniørvidenskabelige skrifter, page 62. From the entry smoke diver
• Yea, as I kill this gulp o' Taos Lightnin' pammed off on us as vino, in like manner will he extinguish you.1930, S. William Moore, The Collar of Brass, page 89. From the entry pam off
• A flashdamp mixture is often lighter than air and presents the peculiarity strange to mines, of extinguishing a light at the roof.1917, Coal Age: With Which is Consolidated The Colliery Engineer: Devoted to Coal Mining and Coke Manufacture, volume 11, McGraw-Hill…. From the entry flashdamp
• A far-right Polish MP has extinguished candles on a menorah lit for Hanukah in Poland’s parliament, disrupting proceedings before a planned vote of confidence in the new government.2023 December 12, Shaun Walker, “Far-right Polish MP uses fire extinguisher to put out Hanukah candles”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived…. From the entry polish
• For all the terrible harm that humans have done to cetaceans, drastically reducing their abundance and range, the baiji was the first of them that we ever completely extinguished.2021 March 30, J. B. MacKinnon, “An Entire Group of Whales Has Somehow Escaped Human Attention”, in The Atlantic. From the entry baiji
• This immunity arises because contact-tracing protocols based on smartphone capabilities can lead to highly efficient quarantining of infected population members and thus the extinguishing of nascent epidemics.2021 June 23, Vir B Bulchandani, Saumya Shivam, Sanjay Moudgalya, S L Sondhi, “Digital herd immunity and COVID-19”, in Physical Biology…. From the entry quarantining
• We are the “upper middle class”, the new kulaks whose antisocial self-interest and lack of submission to the aims of the revolutionary vanguard must be extinguished.2015 February 6, Nick Gillespie, “To the Barricades, Brooklyn Yuppies!”, in The Dailey Beast, retrieved 20150206. From the entry kulak
• There is no end to this power, except as certain men so beastfully pervert this magical gift that it must be extinguished for the good of all mankind.1967, Ruth Montgomery, A Search for the Truth, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow & Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 165. From the entry beastfully
• She and River looked at me hard; but I lowered my eyes and leaned forward, with the nonchalance turned up to eleven, extinguished my cigarette, made eye-contact and nodded curtly.1997, Matthew Branton, The Love Parade, London: Bloomsbury Publishing, published 2002, →ISBN, page 71. From the entry up to eleven
• Being a trifle precipitate in his entry, he trod on a bottle, and was instantly extinguished by a Japanese screen, which appeared to collapse on him out of pure decrepitude.1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 5. From the entry precipitate

Meaning of extinguish

1. verb To stop (fire, etc.) from burning; also, to stop (light, etc.) from shining; to put out, to quench.
2. verb To eclipse or obscure (someone or something).
3. verb To kill (someone).

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How do you use extinguish in a sentence?

Extinguish is used as a verb. For example: “The rays of the sun were extinguished by the thunder clouds.”

What is a short sentence with extinguish?

“She extinguished all my hopes.”

What does extinguish mean?

Extinguish means to stop (fire, etc.) from burning; also, to stop (light, etc.) from shining; to put out, to quench.