Extinguishing

"Extinguishing" in a Sentence (9 examples)

The air was blocked off, extinguishing the fire.

Tom is extinguishing the fire.

I am extinguishing the fire with water.

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

I collected Soviet magazines, all in Cyrillic, when the theme at the Pacific National Exhibition was the USSR. My collection was waterlogged from extinguishing a fire that happened at my Lulu Island house in 1985!

Is a new mass extinction coming? Everything leads me to fear that the damned war industry is about to achieve, with its sinister nuclear arsenal, the stupid goal of extinguishing life on Earth.

The firefighters lost no time in extinguishing the flames.

It took several accidental extinguishings and considerable tinkering with the external oxygen flow between Adam below and Jordan at the controls before he managed to get much ice melted.

The stars are formed of burning cloud; these are extinguished each day, but they are kindled again at night, like coals; for their risings and settings are really kindlings and extinguishings.

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