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How to use the word extinguished in a Sentence?

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Stop it, For In the name of body image, abortions justified, Innocent lives extinguished, under the banner of women's rights.

Christen Kuikoua

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1 month ago

Parenthetically, said ‘individual justice’ and ‘irreparable injury’ analysis also arguably applies to the unborn humans extinguished by mifepristone — especially in the post-Dobbs era.

Matthew Kacsmaryk

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Sean Toomey was a child full of promise and hope, like all children, the great potential he held was extinguished in a snap by strangers withfirearms. Sean Toomey should be alive today and looking forward to the rest of his life. To those who knew and loved him: The loss of Sean’slife is a grave injustice, and we are heartbroken and outraged by his death.

Larry Krasner

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Mistaken gunfire has extinguished another innocent life, i offer my condolences to her family. Please, put down the guns.If you have a gun in your home, secure it with a trigger lock or in a safe.Never, never handle a gun near children.

Cavalier Johnson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Most likely it would have extinguished that fire or at least held it in check and not produced the amount of toxic smoke.

Ronald Siarnicki

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

A young life has been extinguished, and I understand that he meant a lot to many young people. It is tragic.

Prime Minister Stefan Lofven

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Everybody had the opportunity to see a motion cinema picture of a man being tortured to death as his life was extinguished for all the world to see. It was -- it was violent. It was barbaric, the video is enough.

George Floyd

Found on CNN
3 years ago

But they opened too quickly, they shut down again. And that's how they extinguished the virus.

Jonathan Reiner

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Once you have a huge forest fire like that, especially when you don't have all the kind of forest fire-fighting equipment that you have in places like the U.S. or Portugal, it's difficult to extinguish, they'll only be extinguished by themselves depending on the weather conditions.

Alfredo Sirkis

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We must never forget that if the war in Vietnam is lost the right of free speech will be extinguished throughout the world.

Richard Nixon

added by Normando
5 years ago

It is so fitting that we are underneath this bright sun, because what we celebrate today is the light that Trinity has within, the eternal light that has not been extinguished.

Father Egren Gomez

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

It has ignited hopes that they will be finally able to put an end to their hostility and that the long-standing peninsula issues can finally be resolved. These hopes should not be extinguished, encyclopedia.

Itsunori Onodera

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

While no one should expect the summit to have ironed out all the differences and erased the deep-seated mistrust between the two long-time foes, it has ignited hopes that they will be finally able to put an end to their hostility and that the long-standing peninsula issues can finally be resolved. These hopes should not be extinguished.

China Daily

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The Book of Revelation refers to the end times. Do not fear the end. Our souls cannot be extinguished. They are eternal. The end times refer to the end of spiritual unconsciousness. That's what the awakening is all about. The end of a nightmare called hell. The end of separation from God. We suffer from spiritual amnesia and spiritual amnesia is the cause of our suffering.

H.W. Mann

added by howardmann
5 years ago

I'm sharing this with you today in the hopes that on this day in your lives, with all the momentum and the joy, you can learn in life the lessons I only learned in death. Lessons about hope, about strength and about the light within us that will not be extinguished.

Survey Monkey

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

For Africa as a whole, this is the worst year in decades for rhino poaching, the poaching epicentre has spread to neighboring Namibia and Zimbabwe, but is nowhere near being extinguished in South Africa : despite some commendable efforts being made, we’re still a very long way from seeing the light at the end of this very dark tunnel.

Tom Milliken

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Let's not wait until the road light has been extinguished before we feel its brightness, and let's not wait until the fruits of peace and development have been lost before we realize their value.

Zhang Zhijun

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Small concessions don't mean we have a healthy secularity, it's a testament that the Church has not been extinguished but rather has resisted and is gaining ground as the pressure has decreased.

Victor Filella

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Our crew evacuated the aircraft safely and the fire was quickly extinguished by the emergency services at the airport.

The BA spokeswoman

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it-likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.

Viktor Frankl

added by anonymous
9 years ago

My beloved Anastasia was fifteen when I saw her for the last time in the summer of 1916. She would have been twenty-four in 1925. I thought Mrs. Anderson looked much older than that. Of course, one had to make allowances for a very long illness ... All the same, my niece's features could not possibly have altered out of all recognition. The nose, the mouth, the eyes were all different. ... As soon as I sat down by that bed in the Mommsen Nursing Home, I knew I was looking at a stranger. … I had left Denmark with something of a hope in my heart. I left Berlin with all hope extinguished.

Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Sun is a hearthstone, a merry-go-round of extinguished hearthstones.

Dejan Stojanovic

added by anonymous
11 years ago

The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.

Kahlil Gibran

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The light of the stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So is it with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personality.

Kahlil Gibran

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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