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extinguishing

[ US /ɪkˈstɪŋɡwɪʃɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /ɛkstˈɪŋɡwɪʃɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. the act of extinguishing; causing to stop burning
    the extinction of the lights

How To Use extinguishing In A Sentence

  • It also discusses the harm in detail according to the comparison of acid gases between different. the research provides selection of fire-extinguishing agents in terms of harms.
  • Improved building codes requiring smoke detectors and water sprinklers, self-extinguishing cigarettes, and overall decreased rates of smoking have probably had a much bigger impact on the number of fires and fire deaths than the flammability standard. Sarah Janssen: California's Flammability Standard Puts Children at Risk
  • The marquise, worried that Yvette has fallen asleep without extinguishing her candle, decides that someone must check on her.
  • a shell and her cotton bulkheads ignited, but the crew of the Benton, who boarded her, succeeded in extinguishing the fire. The Civil War In America.
  • I drove the sword into his chest, extinguishing him for good.
  • But for the exertions of the police in extinguishing the flames, made while the mob were pelting them with missiles, all the factory hands would have perished. Foreign and Colonial News
  • I could explain why it was gravitational synchrony that caused certain asteroids to be flung out of the asteroid belt and ultimately to strike our planet, probably extinguishing the dinosaurs and many other creatures.
  • The real problem of our historic hour is that God is disappearing from the horizon of men and that with the extinguishing of the light coming from God disorientation befalls mankind, the destructive effects of which we are seeing ever more. Papal Letter about the Lifting of the SSPX Excommunications - the Letter Itself
  • Death is not extinguishing the light,it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come. Rabindranath Tagore 
  • Only that mighty mass of clouds called Arjuna, aided by Krishna like unto a powerful wind, with celestial weapon representing its fierce lightning, the white steeds, the rows of white cranes coursing underneath and the unbearable Gandiva, the rainbow ahead, is capable of extinguishing the blazing flame represented by Karna by means of its arrowy showers let off with unflagging steadiness. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Vana Parva, Part 1
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