extinguishing

How To Use extinguishing In A Sentence

• Southern owns three market only through the acceptance of national security, automatic fire extinguishing equipment.
• I began to scream dreadfully, calling upon M. de Rivière, and, aided by fear, the four of us succeeded in extinguishing the blaze, though not without severely burning our hands. Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun
• The three mitzvot given explicitly to women — hallah, niddah and hadlaka [= mitzvot HaNaH] — are given a negative connotation because Eve brought death into the world, thereby extinguishing the light (ner) of Adam, who was the dough (hallah) of the world, and by spilling his blood, which left her the obligation in niddah. Legal-Religious Status of the Jewish Female.
• Originally, extinguishing systems included hydrants and standpipes to assist manual efforts.
• The finding of his mare – J. the Third, as he laughingly dubbed her – decided the point; he forthwith took on himself the role of quixotic highwayman, roaming his beloved South Country, happier than he had been since he first left England; bit by bit regaining his youth and spirits, which last, not all the trouble he had been through had succeeded in extinguishing .... The Black Moth: A Romance of the XVIII Century
• It's highly flammable, which is why firefighters had to finish extinguishing hotspots before investigators could get to the dead men inside. StarTribune.com rss feed
• The significance of 34.3, ‘Then throw me into well water,’ is lost in the present version, by the position of the line _after_ the ‘burning gleed,’ as it seems the reciter regarded the well-water merely as a means of extinguishing the gleed. Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series
• It was eerie inside the now-empty church; only a cleric remained, extinguishing the candles with a long silver snuffer. Silent Scream: An Anna Travis Mystery
• Death is not extinguishing the light,it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come. Rabindranath Tagore 
• Surely we have moved along the road from Roman times to where a life and its extinguishing, the finality of its no-moreness, should be seen as sacred and treated accordingly. Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed