EXTINGUISH in a Sentence

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Gramercy for the few drops of thy sprinkling," replied De Bracy; "but this damsel hath wept enough to extinguish a beacon-light.

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 Meanings and Examples of EXTINGUISH
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
extinguish
 v.  stop a fire or a light burning; stop or get rid of an idea or feeling
Classic Sentence: (91 in 7 pages)
1  Anguish and despair had penetrated into the core of my heart; I bore a hell within me which nothing could extinguish.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
2  When I thought of him I gnashed my teeth, my eyes became inflamed, and I ardently wished to extinguish that life which I had so thoughtlessly bestowed.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
3  In that hour I should die and at once satisfy and extinguish his malice.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
4  Little did I then expect the calamity that was in a few moments to overwhelm me and extinguish in horror and despair all fear of ignominy or death.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
5  It is a point of fire that exists within us, which is immortal and infinite, which nothing can confine, and which nothing can extinguish.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—A HEART BENEATH A STONE
6  In France, there is no wrath, not even of a public character, which six months will not extinguish.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MARIUS, EMERGING FROM CIVIL WAR, MAKES READY F...
7  He would extinguish the sun if the sun incommoded him.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 48 A FAMILY AFFAIR
8  That night a memorable event occurred, due, no doubt, to the imprudence of some servant who had neglected to extinguish the lights.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 33. Roman Bandits.
9  Franz replied that he had left him at the moment they were about to extinguish the moccoli, and that he had lost sight of him in the Via Macello.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 37. The Catacombs of Saint Sebastian.
10  Gramercy for the few drops of thy sprinkling," replied De Bracy; "but this damsel hath wept enough to extinguish a beacon-light.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
11  They are fast rising at least," said Ulrica, with frightful composure; "and a signal shall soon wave to warn the besiegers to press hard upon those who would extinguish them.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
12  I hasped the window; I combed his black long hair from his forehead; I tried to close his eyes: to extinguish, if possible, that frightful, life-like gaze of exultation before any one else beheld it.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
13  A moment later he extinguished his light; it embarrassed him.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL
14  Nevertheless, he deluded himself at first; he had a feeling of security and of solitude; the bolt once drawn, he thought himself impregnable; the candle extinguished, he felt himself invisible.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL
15  They seemed almost extinguished at intervals, then lighted up again and shone like stars.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—SISTER SIMPLICE PUT TO THE PROOF
Example Sentence:
1  Smoking is forbidden. Please extinguish your cigarettes.
2  As a Scout, Marisa learned how to light a fire, how to stoke it if it started to die down, and how to extinguish it completely.
3  These gangsters have been extinguished by the police.
4  The marble basin was removed; in its place, stood a deal table and a kitchen chair: these objects were visible by a very dim light proceeding from a horn lantern, the wax candles being all extinguished.
5  Through the total fading away and extinction of craving, decay and death, sorrow, lamentation, suffering, grief, and despair are extinguished.
6  Her life was finally extinguished by the onset of liver complaint.
7  It's highly flammable, which is why firefighters had to finish extinguishing hotspots before investigators could get to the dead men inside.