How To Use Quenched In A Sentence

Hot steel is quenched to harden it.
The flame of mount Hecla (sayth he) will not burne towe (which is most apt matter for the wicke of a candle) neither is it quenched with water. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
One hill I passed over I found to be composed of puddingstone, that is to say, a conglomeration of many kinds of stone mostly rounded and mixed up in a mass, and formed by the smothered bubblings of some ancient and ocean-quenched volcano. Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated,
When cast steels are quenched and tempered, the range of strength and of toughness is broadened.
Someone has cannily spotted this unquenched desire, and decided that the best solution would be to create Girl Heaven, a fairytale palace stacked to the rafters with pink and shiny trinkets.

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At times the fire on both sides was nearly quenched by the showers, and the bedrenched combatants could do little but gaze at each other through a gray veil of mist and rain. Montcalm and Wolfe
Any hope of a recovery by Sligo Warriors was quickly quenched when they were held scoreless for almost the first four minutes of the last period.
To obtain good machineability, all forgings produced from this steel were heated to a temperature of from 1,575 to 1,625°F. to refine the grain of the steel thoroughly and quenched in water and then tempered to obtain proper machineability by heating to a temperature of from 1,000 to 1,100°F. and cooled slowly or quenched. The Working of Steel Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel
There is an unquenched thirst for knowledge about their wardrobe, their bedroom escapades, their sordid past.
But what shall we do with our inner Fire, our inner Urge, our inner Intensity to surpass all my limitations, all our animal wildness that makes us slaves, our unquenched eagerness to surpass all darkness and ignorance, and our askesis to receive the Help of any higher Power in our difficulties, in our sufferings and in the matters of death and diseases? Should we then go back to the caves! Can we stop Evolution?
Even David Silva's effervescence seemed to have been quenched, while Samir Nasri has looked much more like the half-drowned butterfly of the second half of last season than the player whose devastatingly penetrative form for Arsenal up to Christmas 2010 persuaded City's recruiters – and just about everyone else in English football – that he was about to become one of the Premier League's most influential performers. Manchester City and Liverpool need a solution for striking flaws | Richard Williams
-- Of Want. -- less. -- to be rendered without, or not to be: as, heartless, staunchless, resistless, exhaustless, trustless, not to be quenched, &c.; which are scarcely used but in poetry. The Scholar's Spelling Assistant; Wherein the Words Are Arranged on an Improved Plan, According to Their Respective Principles of Accentuation. In a Manner Calculated to Familiarize the Art of Spelling and Pronunciation, to Remove Difficulties, and to
Enroute, he quenched his thirst for academics by acquiring a doctorate degree in Industrial Management from IIT-M.
(a red gad-fly) were troublesome as usual, and at night the mosquitoes phlebotomized us till we hailed the dawn. 18 A delightful bath of salt followed by fresh water, effectually quenched the fiery irritation of these immundicities. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
He knew that, had seemed to sense it from the first, had felt the terrible unquenched longing in her soul, understood the crying of her skin for touch, of her body for union with another.
After my hunger and thirst was quenched, I climbed up into my loft and fell asleep.
After holding for selected periods of time, the specimens are withdrawn from the bath and rapidly quenched in cold water.
The allure of Dulli's own fictional (?) dark world is most magnetic not in his lyrics but rather in his gorgeous music which is fed, made more beautiful even, by the tease of cheap thrills, unquenched desires, and Catholic guilt.
She quenched the thought as soon as it flittered through her mind, but not fast enough. Crimson Wind
Gray iron is usually quenched in salt, oil, or lead baths at 230 to 425°C for austempering.
The effects of tempering on the hardness of alloyed and unalloyed malleable irons illustrate the beneficial effects of alloying on as-quenched hardness and stability at elevated temperatures.
Brady somehow has figured all of this out - how to be famous and chic and still be the most popular, admired guy in his locker room, loved by his head coach and owner, a winner whose insatiable drive to succeed remains unquenched.
Anything more wheedlesome than that touching appeal was seldom heard, but Jo quenched ` her boy 'by turning on him with a stern query, "How many bouquets have you sent Miss Randal this week? Little Women
She made a synthetic rock like the meteorite, heated it to 200°C, then quenched it in water.
But sith he continued his extremitie euen to his last daies, we may rather beléeue, that although from his childhood he shewed some tokens of clemencie, bountie, and liberalitie; yet by following the wars, and practising to reigne with sternenesse, he became so inured therewith, that those peaceable vertues were quite altered in him, and in maner clearelie quenched. Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6) England (1 of 12) William the Conqueror
He felt so grateful for the simple taste of a few gulps of water that he sat back to enjoy the way it had quenched his thirst.
The hooded blue eyes unfurl, revealing beneath the lids an unquenched intensity.
He quenched his thirst with a long drink of cold water.
I play innocent, citing an interest in Scientology that remains unquenched by my casual Internet surfing.
The cold water quenched his thirst
The steel is then quenched to the martensitic state and tempered at an appropriate temperature.
The stability of up - quenched Cu - 25 . 0 Zn - 4.20 Al ( wt . % ) alloy has been studied by positron annihilation and X - ray diffraction.
After being annealed, the work metal is quenched in water to free it from particles of the salt mixture.
Quenched and tempered structural steels are primarily available in the form of plate or bar products.
I shall haunt the streets until my madness is quenched.
The subject parts can then be oil quenched to obtain a deeper effective and thus harder case than would have resulted from the carburizing process alone.
Workers reacted quickly, calling the fire brigade, although the fire was quenched using extinguishers, before the fire officers arrived.
To minimise distortion, long cylindrical objects should be quenched vertically, flat sections edgeways and thick sections should enter the bath first.
The steel is then quenched to the martensitic state and tempered at an appropriate temperature.
The brave Kiltegan man grabbed jugs of water and eventually quenched the chip-pan fire which had threatened to reduce the house to ashes.
The ladies were spotted at El Tiempo, where Sharon quenched her Tex-Mex cravings, and at Trellis Spa at the Houstonian, where they indulged in massages.
an uprising quenched almost before it started
The low pales of the fence that marked out the garden were set far apart, a mere sketched boundary, no bar to beast or man, and the door of the hut stood wide open, so that they saw through into the inner room where the constant lamp on the stone altar showed tiny and dim as a single spark, almost quenched by the light falling from the tiny shutterless window above. The Hermit of Eyton Forest
Hot steel is quenched to harden it.
And accordingly the latest writers on this subject have relinquished that accusation; they no longer charge the old pedagogue with such an effort of genius; they confine themselves to accusing him of ingratitude towards his benefactress, which is as much as to say that a little personal favour, even when well earned, is to compel a man to shut his eyes henceforward to the character and conduct of the person who has conferred it, and that both patriotic feeling and political policy are to be quenched by a pension, which is a strange view. Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets
Ergo, God hates Coretta Scott King and is now tormenting her with fire and brimstone where the worm never dies and the fire is never quenched, and the smoke of her torment ascendeth up for ever and ever. ' The God Delusion
By a frosty-ferned brook, where water tinkled and ran clear as air and cold as ice, Jean quenched his thirst, leaning on a stone that showed drops of blood. To the Last Man
After being annealed, the work metal is quenched in water to free it from particles of the salt mixture.
When steel is quenched these volume changes occur very rapidly and unevenly throughout the specimen.
The values given below have been obtained on tensile test specimens that were oil quenched from 830°C and tempered at 250°C.
As if the Assassins had read his desperate thoughts, several fireballs suddenly slammed into the ground directly in front of him, creating an impenetrable wall of magic fire, unquenched by the heavy rain.
The cells were fixed and the endogenous peroxidase was quenched as mentioned above.
The martensite of quenched tool steel is exceedingly brittle and highly stressed.
He quenched the fire with water.
The metal hissed furiously as the smith quenched it in a trough of oil.
Nothing that the US has done in Iraq marks a new strategy: not the flimsy pretext used to invade, not the doctrine of ‘preemptive war,’ nor America's unquenched need for empire.
With his thirst for the freedom struggle remaining unquenched, he organised a procession there, only to serve a second term of three months.
Two deer had come to drink, one keeping watch while the other quenched its thirst.
So long Spencer, it was short but hopefully it quenched your Survivor thirst.
In some instances the edge is time quenched; then the remainder of the tool is oil quenched for partial strengthening.
If red hot steel is quenched in a hot decoction of mullein that preparation is useful for treating bleeding dysentery as well as increasing urination.
Crowded around the bar, we caught our breath and ordered the drafts that never quite quenched our thirsts, but Tom and Betty kept dancing, jitterbugs and twists, the new steps they whipped up on the spot that were as sharp as any on Bandstand. In the Jukebox Light
I am the unquenched spark ever flashing and astonishing the face of time, ever working my will and wreaking my passion on the cloddy aggregates of matter, called bodies, which I have transiently inhabited. Chapter 12
Apparently, the thirst of the Palestinian blood among the Jewish politicians either in Israel or US and the plans of Zionist state has not quenched so far, even after orphaning, widowing hundred of thousands Palestinians, somewhere by the US made missiles, the German made tanks that could ravage their settlements, French made bullets to pierce the chests of women, children and somewhere in the torture cells of Tel Aviv. Gaza Again on Fire, Revenge will be Taken of Each Life: HAMAS
The white magic had become the black... And still their obsessive thirst for knowledge was unquenched. NIGHT SISTERS
Sorrow had quenched the fiery passions of impetuous youth, and religion’s holy precepts had taught Edmund Saville, that revenge was sinful, and that the divine command expressly said —” Thou shalt do no murder;” and in his reflective mind, the duellist was a murderer, let custom gloss the practice how it might. Lovers and Friends; or, Modern Attachments
Quenched, inhuman, his fingers upon her unrevealed nudity were the fingers of silence upon silence, the body of mysterious night upon the body of mysterious night, the night masculine and feminine, never to be seen with the eye, or known with the mind, only known as a palpable revelation of living otherness. Women in Love
Submerged and sublimated, they will periodically push their way up through the conscious surface as unquenched animal desires, inexplicable tendencies, arresting visions and relentless dreams.
But once we've quenched our thirst, having just ended a cross-town walk, we're more interested in food than booze.
Virtually all steels must be quenched and tempered for core properties before being nitrided or stress relieved for distortion control.
Forsooth, so weary were we with sorrow, and our hunger was now quenched, that we laid us down and slept at once, and forgat our troubles. The Water of the Wondrous Isles
“Petite, blond, elegant in a nubby suit, a vaguely patrician accent hinting at her Harvard Law School and Smith College education, Jane Harman has a polished, camera-ready exterior, but an inner core of grit, discipline, and unquenched ambition,” a profiler once wrote in Mother Jones. Jane Harman’s resignation is CIA’s loss
My last view of her was of a dynamic, compact figure, her thirst for intellectual adventure clearly unquenched, as she marched towards yet another threshold.
What devotees of Lashkar-e-Taiba or James Dobson share is an unquenched desire for order.
Shell revives unquenched desire to sell Ireland's oldest company
For many years, a simple press heat treatment has been practiced, in which the hot working served as the solution treatment and the hot worked product had to be rapidly quenched.
It is what lies behind the illusion of hang-time that made Jordan great: athleticism, complete ball-skill and an unquenched desire to inflict his will.
These towns looked, in the cinderous wet, as though they had one and all been on fire and were just put out — a dreary and quenched panorama, many miles long. The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices
What could I say but cry silently and tearlessly with him in amazed, unquenched sorrow.
We walked under deep blue skies, quenched our thirst from mountain streams and lakes, fought off horses that thought they had more right than us to our lunch, collected herbs and revelled in the magnificent scenery.
The effect of chemical composition on mechanical properties of the austenite - bainite ( is other - tally quenched ) white iron was investigated.
Despite the steps taken by the authorities to protect the road users, the thirst of roads for human blood continues unquenched, to put it in the words of a modern writer,
He quenched the fire with water.
He quenched the fire with water.
The then Preston manager, David Moyes, made sure that was possible, taking him to Deepdale, where he quenched his thirst for further development.
The owner smiled in response, though her curiosity remained unquenched.
After a purge, 3 or 4 grains of bezoar stone, and 3 grains of ambergris, drunk or taken in borage or bugloss water, in which gold hot hath been quenched, will do much good, and the purge shall diminish less (the heart so refreshed) of the strength and substance of the body. Anatomy of Melancholy
When cast steels are quenched and tempered, the range of strength and of toughness is broadened.
You parcel up the boxes again: nothing has been quenched.
The desire for a better life is not easily quenched.
This forenamed maid hath yet in her the continuance of her first affection: his unjust unkindness, that in all reason should have quenched her love, hath, like an impediment in the current, made it more violent and unruly. Measure for Measure
Seventy-five miles and 6.5 hours from the start and we are scarfing some hot food and sucking down cold beers, legs a bit sore but the soul quenched.
But gradually the warning sound is lost to the alarmed ear, and the pulses of the commoved air waft it on to mingle with the thousand other long-quenched voices which people the distant realms of space, and form together that unutterable harmony which, by consent of the poets, is named the music of the spheres. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847
Many of these are supported on folded steel plates which, like all the other visible steel in the building, have been oil quenched.
The fake emergency appeared almost real as fires were quenched and passengers brought to safety but thankfully the whole exercise was staged to ensure that the crews would be prepared should a disaster occur in the future.
On Saturday night, the visitors paid a visit to a traditional Irish music session in Clancy's Pub on Leinster Street, where, after their long walk they quenched their thirst with pints of Guinness and Irish malt.
Harder rocks were broken down by ‘fire-setting’, a process in which the rock face was heated by burning faggots against it, and then quenched with water, causing the rock to fracture.
He prefers to settle down after having quenched his curiosity.
The aluminum is heated to 550 degrees Celsius and must be quenched with water.
The parts come out red hot and are quenched in a water bath.
The insistence that hate could be entirely quenched was earlier explained as the flip side of loving your neighbor.
We quenched our thirst for the first time since our departure from Sivas. Janet Kinosian: Witness to Fire: Survivors of the Armenian Genocide
In an exploration of the passions, including such meaner passions as envy, greed and jealousy, Italo Svevo analyses them in the process of aging with its unquenched appetites in As a Man Grows Older.
These towns looked, in the cinderous wet, as though they had one and all been on fire and were just put out -- a dreary and quenched panorama, many miles long. Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices
Crowded around the bar, we caught our breath and ordered the drafts that never quite quenched our thirsts, but Tom and Betty kept dancing, jitterbugs and twists, the new steps they whipped up on the spot that were as sharp as any on Bandstand. In the Jukebox Light
But once we've quenched our thirst, having just ended a cross-town walk, we're more interested in food than booze.
For these punishments are temporal; but there neither the worm dieth nor is the fire quenched: for that body of all is incorruptible, which is then to be raised up. NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians
She finds herself beckoning, urging, pleading with the other woman to calm the angry fires of unquenched lust ablaze within her own tormented soul.
Certain alloys that are relatively insensitive to cooling rate during quenching can be either air cooled or water quenched directly from a final hot working operation.
his thirst quenched he was able to continue
She was so little, so baby-plump and innocent and sweet, but the light in the eyes had been brutally quenched and an expression lurked there which made him want to murder Sister Agatha. The Thorn Birds
She spoke steadily, but the effort ached through her whole frame, especially when the last word illumined John Plantagenet's face with strange sweet light, quenched as his lip trembled, his nostril quivered, his eye even moistened, as he said, 'It is enough, lady; I will no more vex one who is vexed enough already; and you will so far trust me as to regard me as your protector, if you should be in need?' The Caged Lion
The blaze was quenched by the brave firemen.
After holding them for predetermined times at various temperatures they are finally quenched in water.
All material was solution treated at 1000°F, and quenched in cold water.
This was excessively cold, but at least this mistake meant the chilled liquid quenched our parched mouths.
After we had quenched our thirst, we headed off back for Swinford.
He has been collecting coins and currency notes for the last three decades and his thirst for more remains unquenched.
Many years ago, my father told me that at the English College in Rome, young would-be priests were told about the pagan legend of the Salamander - the mythical lizard that walked into fire and quenched the flames by the power of its virtue.
The parts were pulled from the 1,400-degree mix after soaking up the heat for up to an hour and then quenched in cold water.
As the quenched iron is tempered, its hardness decreases, whereas it usually gains in strength and toughness.
Maybe it was to add romance; though I firmly quenched the thought with a good dose of rationality, a small romantic part of me twinged in a wrenching way when Alice chose to go back to reality after Hatter asked her to stay. Sound Off: Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland - Thoughts? « FirstShowing.net
Harvard School of Public Health professor Grace Wyshak recently found that ninth and 10 th-grade girls who sipped soda were three times more likely to break bones than those who quenched their thirsts with other drinks.
I didn't react in the usual way with a quick burst of swearing and a resigned return to sleep with thirst unquenched, vowing to deal with it in the morning.
Similar structures are often observed in lower carbon steels as quenched, as a result of the formation of Fe 3 C during the quench.

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