snuff out

How To Use snuff out In A Sentence

• In 1996 a royal commission concluded that the problem went beyond attempts to snuff out native culture.
• These included a far-reaching mission to snuff out treachery and defeatism in an area which included his old home. IN LOVE AND WAR
• ─but the hail has other reasons than serving and the wet eastern wind of evening does not dream of standing watch by my disenchanged lion sobs: no longer will I run after every passage of beauty,─beauty is defeated, never again at attention will I snuff out that fire now glimmering like an old tree trunk in which hollow swallows make nonsensical nests, child's lay, unreckoning misery, unreckoning misery of sympthy. Amelia Rosselli
• Harold Geneen, the iron-fisted conglomerateur who ran ITT Corp. actually hired globe-trotting engineers to visit the company’s labs with the express mission to snuff out any and all research activity in computers. Executive Economics
• The recent rebound in mortgage rates could snuff out the housing recovery.
• He came back on the offensive but still the York side tackled hard to snuff out scoring chances.
• But as demonstrators' ranks swelled, police and antiriot forces lined the streets, ordered shops to shut down and responded at times with force, according to witnesses and opposition websites, in a repeat of the official crackdown that helped snuff out months of spirited opposition rallies a year ago. Tehran Beats Back New Protests
• I am very concerned about what the president has put forth, although again, we're respectful of his need to snuff out terrorism, prevent any acts from happening again.
• One was so scrupulous that when he finished work, he would snuff out the candle the state had provided and light himself to bed with his own.
• They would have been able to get ahead, snuff out any threats and kill the game off. The Sun