ADJECTIVE
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capable of being extinguished or killed
an extinguishable fire
hope too is extinguishable
How To Use extinguishable In A Sentence
- Had our Enemy been able to do more than act the mischeivous child and set a few quickly-extinguishable fires, or make a few prank calls, he would have done so. 2005/04 - 2005/05
- But at the same time, and often in stark contrast to Goethe, Schiller displayed an inextinguishable sense of the tragic.
- Step into Plunkett House, that hospitable headquarters of the Organization Society, and if you have been nurtured in legends about inextinguishable class and creed antipathies, which are supposed to render Home Rule impossible and the eternal "umpirage" of The Framework of Home Rule
- an inextinguishable faith
- Here, when you enter his gloomy penetralia, and invoke his services, the sable-clad and cadaverous- featured shopman asks you, in a sepulchral voice-we are not writing romance, but simple fact - whether you are to be suited for inextinguishable sorrow, or for mere passing grief; and if you are at all in doubt upon the subject, he can solve the problem for you, if you lend him your confidence for the occasion. . . Archive 2008-06-01
- The flames constantly multiply, often respawn from inextinguishable red blazes, can never really be put out for good, and occasionally manifest as strangely living things.
- The entire stern of the boat was caught in an inextinguishable blaze.
- He found the mere repetition of the word "wabble" sufficient to produce almost inextinguishable mirth. The History of Mr. Polly
- This child is the bearer of inextinguishable hope for our fallen and troubled world.
- You could argue that Coghlan goes to extreme lengths - the devastation of London - to demonstrate inextinguishable compassion.