How To Use Extinguished In A Sentence

  • Typically the corona is a million times fainter than the solar surface, which is why it cannot be seen except when the photosphere is mostly extinguished.
  • In a richly ornamented setting with animals and plants on a red background, in 14 copper rosettes placed between lacunars, there are the Wise Virgins and Foolish Virgins of the New Testament parable; the former hold lighted lamps, the latter have lamps already extinguished.
  • Fire covered the carriageway and melted more than 600 sq metres of tarmac before the blaze was extinguished. The Sun
  • His discovery extinguished the achievements of his colleague.
  • After three days of "spinning," the fires were extinguished. Modern Literatures of the Non-Western World: Where the Waters Are Born
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  • The car lights are extinguished and we stand in the blue shadows and cooling dust. Times, Sunday Times
  • And then the silhouette reappeared briefly in the fanlight just as the second lamp was extinguished. Excerpt: A False Mirror by Charles Todd
  • There is also a swifter motion of a different sort of fire which strikes and dilates the ray of sight until it reaches the eyes, forcing a way through their passages and melting them, and eliciting from them a union of fire and water which we call tears, being itself an opposite fire which comes to them from an opposite direction — the inner fire flashes forth like lightning, and the outer finds a way in and is extinguished in the moisture, and all sorts of colours are generated by the mixture. Timaeus
  • But it was the recurring nightmare of Adam Gilchrist which extinguished those hopes.
  • The cabin lights were soon extinguished: all but the crew were asleep. Times, Sunday Times
  • If credit was given for both these sums, the debt to the government would be extinguished.
  • After four years of work, a fire that had burned for 130 years was finally extinguished. Christianity Today
  • The little spark of hope within me promptly extinguished itself.
  • Fire covered the carriageway and melted more than 600 sq metres of tarmac before the blaze was extinguished. The Sun
  • Firefighters extinguished a blaze in the hallway. Times, Sunday Times
  • Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zhang Qiyue said all efforts should be made to resolve the dispute until hope was extinguished entirely.
  • Some artillery guns fired white phosphorous rounds that create a screen of fire that cannot be extinguished with water.
  • The lights were on, but my fire had been extinguished. Times, Sunday Times
  • The fire was brought under control just under three hours later with the main bulk of the blaze extinguished.
  • The resulting fire was finally extinguished on Monday. Times, Sunday Times
  • Police said that a firework had set fire to netting on scaffolding next to the church which was soon extinguished. Times, Sunday Times
  • However it appears to the Environment Agency that the ancient navigable status of the Thames at Hedsor has never been extinguished by statute or by any other competent authority.
  • And now in the torrid heat of summer, the canicular days being at hand, the furnaces in the glass-house of the said Angelo have been extinguished. Marietta A Maid of Venice
  • The stadium lights were extinguished and a minute's silence held in remembrance of soldiers past and present, a fly-past by an RAF helicopter underlining the significance of their sacrifices. Archive 2008-11-01
  • The flame of new Labour was finally extinguished. Times, Sunday Times
  • In addition to all these considerations, the right of North Carolina to have this title extinguished by the General Government, is strengthened by the policy which has been pursued towards the Cherokees by the States of Georgia, Tennessee, and Alabama. North Carolina--Cherokee Indians. Report and Resolution of a Joint Committee of the Legislature of North Carolina, Relative to the Cherokee Indians
  • The racer burst into flames upon impact but the fire was quickly extinguished by park staff.
  • But now, when I appeared almost within grasp of my foe, my hopes were suddenly extinguished, and I lost all traces of him more utterly than I had ever done before. Chapter 24
  • Firefighters extinguished a blaze in the hallway. Times, Sunday Times
  • The shouting of her husband and daughter is extinguished.
  • The car lights are extinguished and we stand in the blue shadows and cooling dust. Times, Sunday Times
  • Firefighters extinguished a blaze in the hallway. Times, Sunday Times
  • Besides, the fires have not been entirely extinguished. Times, Sunday Times
  • The debts were automatically extinguished by collection and their proceeds never became subject to a fixed charge.
  • Its light was extinguished last year. Times, Sunday Times
  • The house was also set alight but the fire was extinguished. Times, Sunday Times
  • The lights were on, but my fire had been extinguished. Times, Sunday Times
  • Incompletely extinguished cigarettes may smolder in mulch, leaves or potting soil until a breeze causes ignition, Teevan said. Va. fire apparently from smoking materials
  • We are arranging for a search tomorrow once the fire has been extinguished. The Sun
  • Queues of traffic stretched back for miles following the accident as the fire service extinguished the blaze and police removed the wrecked cars.
  • You have extinguished that light suddenly and needlessly. Times, Sunday Times
  • Had they completed the purchase of the option, those rights would have been extinguished by unity of seisin.
  • How volatile might Turkey become if his hope of entry were extinguished?
  • Fire covered the carriageway and melted more than 600 sq metres of tarmac before the blaze was extinguished. The Sun
  • You have extinguished that light suddenly and needlessly. Times, Sunday Times
  • So brilliant," said she, "so short-lived, as my friend Lady Emmeline K---- once said, 'London wit is like gas, which lights at a touch, and at a touch can be extinguished;'" and Lady Davenant concluded with a compliment to him who was known to have this "_touch and go_" of good conversation to perfection. Tales and Novels — Volume 10
  • The car lights are extinguished and we stand in the blue shadows and cooling dust. Times, Sunday Times
  • The cabin lights were soon extinguished: all but the crew were asleep. Times, Sunday Times
  • After three days of "spinning," the fires were extinguished. Modern Literatures of the Non-Western World: Where the Waters Are Born
  • When that hope is extinguished, it's like the roof being blown off the house.
  • Luckily, the smoke detector automatically alerted the fire brigade who extinguished the blaze and moved the couple, and their pets, away from the house.
  • Alas! that love is certainly very lukewarm which can be extinguished by so trifling an offence; that scornful rigour, which is displayed so readily, sufficiently shows to me the depth of her affection. The Love-Tiff
  • The Fire brigade were called just before 11 pm and extinguished the fire, which burned an area of heathland around three-quarters of a mile square.
  • Then she locked the door of the flat, extinguished her light and lay down. The House of Mirth
  • Its light was extinguished last year. Times, Sunday Times
  • Unfortunately, the sudden and tragic death of John Lennon in 1980 extinguished any hope of the Beatles reforming.
  • Upon his death his titles extinguished; but his estates devolved on his nephew, the Lord John Fitz Maurice, in whose favour the title of The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2
  • Through the total fading away and extinction of craving, decay and death, sorrow, lamentation, suffering, grief, and despair are extinguished.
  • The house was also set alight but the fire was extinguished. Times, Sunday Times
  • The gas light had been extinguished, perhaps to save expense. Times, Sunday Times
  • To avoid doubt, native title or native title rights and interests may have been extinguished other than by this Act.
  • In the interrupt handling function, the home digital TimerFlag, thereby extinguished LED 1.
  • She deliberately extinguished the light in her eyes, but it shone against her will in a barely noticeable smile.
  • The house was also set alight but the fire was extinguished. Times, Sunday Times
  • Through the total fading away and extinction of craving, decay and death, sorrow, lamentation, suffering, grief, and despair are extinguished.
  • The car lights are extinguished and we stand in the blue shadows and cooling dust. Times, Sunday Times
  • A faint flare of anger had risen up in me, but I quickly extinguished the blaze.
  • The house was also set alight but the fire was extinguished. Times, Sunday Times
  • His love for fire fighting is promptly extinguished one day when the big-bellied porker runs into a burning warehouse and falls through the creaky floor.
  • After the Revolution, during the First Empire, so called, -- the usurpation, that is, of Napoleon Bonaparte, -- literature was well-nigh extinguished in France. Classic French Course in English
  • Its light was extinguished last year. Times, Sunday Times
  • Oil of colza and tallow are extinguished, where naphtha, petroleum, and oil of bone, continue burning. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 289, December 22, 1827
  • After three days of "spinning," the fires were extinguished. Modern Literatures of the Non-Western World: Where the Waters Are Born
  • The fire is extinguished before it burns away the paper, leaving behind a dark residue.
  • The car lights are extinguished and we stand in the blue shadows and cooling dust. Times, Sunday Times
  • We are arranging for a search tomorrow once the fire has been extinguished. The Sun
  • The woman pressed extinguished the cigarette butt, also selected on, but I have discovered her corner of the eye, that as soon as wiped moistly crystal clear.
  • In other words, the tenant's estate was somehow divisible into two portions, only one of which was extinguished by the squatter's adverse possession.
  • The roof and upstairs wall had collapsed by the time the blaze was extinguished. The Sun
  • The roof and upstairs wall had collapsed by the time the blaze was extinguished. The Sun
  • Forest fires flared up again in Portugal just hours after 27 infernos were declared extinguished by more than 3,600 exhausted firefighters.
  • A human life has been extinguished by private guards acting as vigilantes in the defense of a multimillion-dollar company.
  • You have extinguished that light suddenly and needlessly. Times, Sunday Times
  • The flame of new Labour was finally extinguished. Times, Sunday Times
  • By evening every fire in the kingdom would be extinguished, only to be rekindled from a ceremonial fire lit by a druid. THE ANCIENT FUTURE: THE DARK AGE
  • It had been extinguished in some parts of the Ord Project Area with respect to the dam area and spillways and irrigation areas.
  • He was the best of his family but the male line is extinguished.
  • The gas light had been extinguished, perhaps to save expense. Times, Sunday Times
  • The scoutmaster shouted for order while he extinguished his shoe and checked for damage. Kill the Irishman
  • Alternatively, the fire screen is created in haematite (black steel) plate, possessing the attribute of projecting shadow, even when the fire is extinguished or the light source removed; running on its shadow. Really Creative Fireplaces Designs by Anne Colombo
  • More than 200 firefighters from Arlington, Va., and other nearby towns, extinguished a fire that burned for nearly three days.
  • For nature too is a form of art; and a breath of the fresh air or a single glance at the varying landscape would in an instant revive and reillumine the extinguished spark of poetry in the human breast. The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett
  • The roof and upstairs wall had collapsed by the time the blaze was extinguished. The Sun
  • Men of competence will never be extinguished from the memory of humanity because his wisdom, his dedication to the improvement of humanity, his tenacity for the progress of science in favor of mankind, makes people everywhere, all believers, all ideologies, feel in one way or another under an obligation to his talents and his boldness. Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo - Nobel Lecture
  • And sure enough, when I push the stopper on the "inkwell" the glass tank turns red, and the doomed creatures become extinguished. “uncharted pages from a voyage of the beagle”
  • Firefighters extinguished a blaze in the hallway. Times, Sunday Times
  • Besides, the fires have not been entirely extinguished. Times, Sunday Times
  • The blaze was started by a cigarette which had not been properly extinguished in the smoking room.
  • Besides, the fires have not been entirely extinguished. Times, Sunday Times
  • He expelled a spray of fine white foam which almost extinguished the great log fire in the corner of the snug.
  • -- When frequently extinguished in water, it imparts a considerable desiccative power to it. Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine
  • Then she locked the door of the flat, extinguished her light and lay down. The House of Mirth
  • By evening every fire in the kingdom would be extinguished, only to be rekindled from a ceremonial fire lit by a druid. THE ANCIENT FUTURE: THE DARK AGE
  • Then she locked the door of the flat, extinguished her light and lay down. The House of Mirth
  • We lurked in the shrubbery until the last light had been extinguished, then broke in using the side window that Raffles had jemmied the previous evening -- the butler had evidently not thought it worth bolting the stable door, so to speak -- opened the safe, and took the stones, which were, Raffles whispered, quite undisturbed. Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
  • But the very thought of the potential existence of that possibility is absolutely killing me, and thus must be extinguished post-haste.
  • But now, as the darkness of the shadows deepened, and the light of water and sky took on a deeper lucence before being extinguished, for the first time the sense of pain and the incompleteness of beautiful things entered his heart. The Adventures of Bobby Orde
  • After four years of work, a fire that had burned for 130 years was finally extinguished. Christianity Today
  • But late on Friday night that last flicker of hope was extinguished by two policemen who broke the news that a body had been found in the river and dental records confirmed it was Glynn.
  • In the popular Revolution bar and club on Belmont Street, a hastily extinguished cigarette was lying on the floor in the ladies' loos.
  • At the end of the opera, they are guillotined, the sound of their ‘Salve regina’ is extinguished voice by voice.
  • In the interrupt handling function, the home digital TimerFlag, thereby extinguished LED 1.
  • The house was also set alight but the fire was extinguished. Times, Sunday Times
  • Scatter, as from an unextinguished hearth , Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind! be through my lips to unawakened Earth.
  • This somewhat euphemistic term described days when citizens carried out ‘labour service’, neon signs were extinguished, and sake (rice wine) was removed from public sale.
  • This was a torch thrown into a powder magazine -- all was explosion; the church, the noblesse, and the monarchy were suddenly extinguished, and France saw this man of long views and powerful passions, suddenly raised from hunger and obscurity, to the highest rank and the richest sinecurism of the republic. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847
  • Maori customary title extinguished by the last Labour Government's contentious Foreshore and Seabed Act will be restored, under proposals just announced. Stuff.co.nz - Stuff
  • At once the lights were extinguished and as the darkness enfolded the young women in its embrace, the door opened and closed with a resounding click that echoed throughout the room for several moments.
  • Socialism extinguished these archaic customs
  • The painting is being repaired and the fire was quickly extinguished. Times, Sunday Times
  • She would drift listlessly about the rooms, her dreams extinguished.
  • Imitating Volney and Gibbon, the narrator imagines a post-lapsarian Britain whose imperial glory has flickered and extinguished. The Ruins of Empire: Nationalism, Art, and Empire in Hemans's Modern Greece
  • In a little time, when the roots of the plant had taken up the moisture, the unsightly blotches began to be extinguished in a living verdure.
  • The resulting fire was finally extinguished on Monday. Times, Sunday Times
  • The gas light had been extinguished, perhaps to save expense. Times, Sunday Times
  • If we have not extinguished the paschal candle on Ascension, we may do so during the reading from Acts as the Holy Spirit roars through the assembly.
  • The resulting fire was finally extinguished on Monday. Times, Sunday Times
  • The fire was finally extinguished at about 11am yesterday. Times, Sunday Times
  • There is no more melancholy spectacle than a festal hall, the morning after the banquet, when the guests have departed and the lights are extinguished.
  • A slice of humanity was extinguished in the process.
  • By evening every fire in the kingdom would be extinguished, only to be rekindled from a ceremonial fire lit by a druid. THE ANCIENT FUTURE: THE DARK AGE
  • Where they find a youth of spirit, let them endeavour to govern that spirit without extinguishing it; to bend it, without breaking it; for when it comes once to be extinguished, and broken, and lost, it is not in the power or art of man to recover it: and then (believe it) no knowledge of nouns and pronouns, syntaxis and prosodia, can ever compensate or make amends for such a loss. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. III.
  • Having given himself a sniff of a chance, however, the Canadian left-hander extinguished his hopes with bogeys at the following two holes.
  • However, the fact that the debt cannot be enforced by action does not mean that the debt is extinguished.
  • The painting is being repaired and the fire was quickly extinguished. Times, Sunday Times
  • But why then are so many women extinguished by the perpetrators?
  • In a little time, when the roots of the plant had taken up the moisture, the unsightly blotches began to be extinguished in a living verdure.
  • If the flame should accidentally be extinguished during transfer, then the receiving player is eliminated from the game, and must pay a forfeit.
  • Then she locked the door of the flat, extinguished her light and lay down. The House of Mirth
  • But though by concealment he may preserve the unruffled surface of their happiness, yet the longing to be roving is not completely extinguished. Married Love: or, Love in Marriage
  • During this holiday, another tradition has all the fires in the village extinguished, and the ‘Need fire’ is kindled.
  • The flame of new Labour was finally extinguished. Times, Sunday Times
  • Any notion of a long chat was quickly extinguished. Times, Sunday Times
  • That's right: As Comic Riffs "wagered" Monday, it's the Human Torch whose life has been extinguished -- at least for the foreseeable future, given the superpowers of comic resurrection -- by writer Jonathan Hickman and artist Steve Epting, Marvel Entertainment tells Comic Riffs. Here be spoilers: The FANTASTIC FOUR member who dies today is... [UPDATED]
  • The cooker automatically cuts off the gas supply if the burner is accidentally extinguished.
  • Another of the king's sniveling nobles had noticed, however, that she slipped out of his house long after candles had been snuffed and fires extinguished.
  • The third and final partition that extinguished the Polish state came late in 1795.
  • The fire, which was quickly extinguished, was basically contained in one area although it had spread through the ceiling into an adjacent room.
  • The car lights are extinguished and we stand in the blue shadows and cooling dust. Times, Sunday Times
  • The fuzz is extinguished midway through the song to allow the clarity of the acoustic guitar to shine through.
  • When I was a little girl, the Paschal candle was extinguished in Ascension as a sign of the mystery of Christ's departure.
  • But the very thought of the potential existence of that possibility is absolutely killing me, and thus must be extinguished post-haste.
  • Quickly he smoked it until it was just a butt, which he tossed into the toilet bowl where it extinguished with a sizzle.
  • We are arranging for a search tomorrow once the fire has been extinguished. The Sun
  • The devastating sandstorms - fierce enough to keep a fire team from tackling oil well fires on Wednesday - actually extinguished fires burning at three well heads in the oilfield.
  • Yarrow's patent water tight ash pans are fitted to each boiler, to prevent the fire being extinguished by a sudden influx of water into the stokehold. Scientific American Supplement, No. 598, June 18, 1887
  • Thus, if your slave does a wrong while in your power, an action lies against you; if he becomes the property of some other person, that other is the proper person to be sued; and if he is manumitted, he becomes directly and personally liable, and the noxal action is extinguished. The Institutes of Justinian
  • After four years of work, a fire that had burned for 130 years was finally extinguished. Christianity Today
  • The Committee is concerned that aboriginal rights of Native Americans may, in law, be extinguished by Congress.
  • The car lights are extinguished and we stand in the blue shadows and cooling dust. Times, Sunday Times
  • Too big to be extinguished at once, the forest fires at best could be contained
  • What faint light was in the room was extinguished as pure blackness engulfed her.
  • With a warm belly full of food, the fire was extinguished and we were back on our way, often returning after midnight.
  • The car lights are extinguished and we stand in the blue shadows and cooling dust. Times, Sunday Times
  • The house was also set alight but the fire was extinguished. Times, Sunday Times
  • Her life was finally extinguished by the onset of liver complaint.
  • Flames were extinguished quickly by the fire brigade, despite firefighters being initially thwarted by the lack of a hydrant on the private estate, and the low tide level of the Thames.
  • The company lights were all extinguished; great, strong-smelling, cauliflower-headed moulds, that were always wanting snuffing, usurped the place of Belmont wax; napkins were withdrawn; second-hand table-cloths introduced; marsala did duty for sherry; and the stickjaw pudding assumed a consistency that was almost incompatible with articulation. Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour
  • Fire covered the carriageway and melted more than 600 sq metres of tarmac before the blaze was extinguished. The Sun
  • At one point when Mary and the fire chief lusted after each other, he exclaimed ‘it was she who first extinguished my fires!’
  • If Dundee went into the break with renewed hope, it was extinguished 10 minutes after the restart.
  • After three days of "spinning," the fires were extinguished. Modern Literatures of the Non-Western World: Where the Waters Are Born
  • Although it was two hours before the fire was extinguished, only one of the victims died of burns.
  • Bot contrariwise the stubburne, inobedient, cruell oppressours, filthie personis, idolaters, and all such sortes of unfaithfull, sal be cast in the dungeoun of utter darkenesse, where their worme sall not die, nether zit their fyre sall bee extinguished. The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches.
  • The car lights are extinguished and we stand in the blue shadows and cooling dust. Times, Sunday Times
  • The lights were on, but my fire had been extinguished. Times, Sunday Times
  • The contrast between his eyes, in which all hope has been extinguished, and those of his captors, who looked like their next stop would be a movie or a coffee, is imprinted in my memory.
  • A country in which the martial virtues are extinguished cannot hope to be respected while the world remains a polyglot chaos of peoples.
  • By evening every fire in the kingdom would be extinguished, only to be rekindled from a ceremonial fire lit by a druid. THE ANCIENT FUTURE: THE DARK AGE
  • The California Department of Forestry said the crash sparked a small brush fire that was quickly extinguished.
  • Sixty-seven British lives were extinguished – "the worst single terrorist atrocity ever visited on this country," as one of your newspapers put it.
  • Through the total fading away and extinction of craving, decay and death, sorrow, lamentation, suffering, grief, and despair are extinguished.
  • Mrs. Day extinguished again the candles she had lit, and began docilely to unrobe herself. Mrs. Day's Daughters
  • The painting is being repaired and the fire was quickly extinguished. Times, Sunday Times
  • A large, shiny-headed bee hovered over a tangled rose bush and then floated off into the air, the extinguished sound leaving an even deeper silence.
  • I shrieked and jumped back, as he, laughing with amusement, murmured another set of words and a different ray of light extinguished the fire.
  • * Restore any uninvestigated customary title extinguished by the 2004 Act Stuff.co.nz - Stuff
  • 106 † Antioch, 107 whose situation had been less exposed to the calamities of the holy war, was finally occupied and ruined by Bondocdar, or Bibars, sultan of Egypt and Syria; the Latin principality was extinguished; and the first seat of the Christian name was dispeopled by the slaughter of seventeen, and the captivity of one hundred, thousand of her inhabitants. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  • Today's results extinguished their faint hopes that they could prise back control of the Senate.
  • Recriminations will be many, various and, in some quarters, unsparing after flickering hopes of reaching the World Cup play-offs were extinguished by Belarus.
  • The car lights are extinguished and we stand in the blue shadows and cooling dust. Times, Sunday Times
  • The lights were on, but my fire had been extinguished. Times, Sunday Times
  • The flame of new Labour was finally extinguished. Times, Sunday Times
  • Its light was extinguished last year. Times, Sunday Times
  • The fire was quickly extinguished, but the motorcycle was reduced to a smoking, unsalvageable cinder.
  • Lieutenant Emerson was able to get the fire extinguished, then he feathered the propeller.
  • By continuing to employ the full might of mindfulness and wisdom, avijj? is finally extinguished within the citta.
  • But in Sanderson’s world, it’s all about balance, as the energy stored in each armband is finite, and in some cases can take many years to be stored up, but can be used and extinguished in a matter of minutes. “The Well of Ascension: Mistborn Book 2″ by Brandon Sanderson (Tor, 2007) « The BookBanter Blog
  • Servitudes of this character could be extinguished by the consolidation of ownership of both servient and dominant estate in the same owner, and by remission or release; by nonuser for the prescriptive period, and by the destruction of the dominant or servient estate. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
  • KETTERING - A small kitchen fire at the Burger King restaurant at 1431 E. Dorothy Lane was extinguished quickly this morning, April 6, according to a Kettering police and fire dispatcher. Daytondailynews.com - News

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