How to Use extinguish in a Sentence

extinguish

verb

• The fire department was called in to extinguish the blaze.
• He extinguished his cigarette in the ashtray.
• News of the conflict extinguished our hopes for a peaceful resolution.
• They ruthlessly extinguished all resistance.
• The fastest way to extinguish a fire depends on the type and size of the fire.
  — Jim Baird, Field & Stream, 28 June 2023
• The fire was extinguished and no one was harmed, the spokesperson said.
  — Louis Casiano, Fox News, 14 Mar. 2025
• The fire chief and the head of the firefighters union later said that the fire was extinguished.
  — Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 19 Sep. 2023
• All traffic was stopped in Bore 1 and Bore 2 while crews worked to extinguish the fire and clear the scene.
  — Jason Green, Mercury News, 23 Apr. 2025
• No one was inside the shack at the time and the fire was extinguished by 5:30 p.m., county fire said.
  — Bay City News, The Mercury News, 8 Jan. 2024
• But the follow-up post failed to extinguish the anger that the initial post had caused.
  — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 7 Dec. 2021
• Much of it had been damaged by the fire or the effort to extinguish it.
  — Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 12 Apr. 2024
• Words are not enough to extinguish the pain of these actions.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 15 Feb. 2022
• The boy’s clothes caught fire, and a neighbor wrapped a blanket around him to extinguish the flames.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2021
• Crews quickly stopped the spread and worked for hours to extinguish hot spots.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Apr. 2025
• After failing to extinguish the blaze, Wilke and his team fled the scene.
  — Lauren Markham, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
• We’d be sent out on motor cars to extinguish the flames.
  — Graydon Carter, The Atlantic, 14 Mar. 2025
• Her actions helped to extinguish the bright light that was Till.
  — Peniel Joseph, CNN, 22 July 2022
• Firefighters were able to extinguish the blaze that had run along the length of the attic.
  — Amaris Encinas, The Arizona Republic, 18 May 2022
• The study said the public must be taught to roll someone to extinguish clothes that were on fire.
  — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2022
• To extinguish this fire with no loss of life and no injuries.
  — Katherine Rosenberg-Douglas, chicagotribune.com, 30 June 2021
• The railroad said the fire had been extinguished by 5:30 p.m. Thursday.
  — Josh Funk, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2023
• Braun yanked the sweater off, extinguishing the flames in one lucky swoop.
  — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 3 May 2023
• The man who helped try to extinguish the fire died along with his wife, Doubleday said.
  — Jasmine Hilton, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2023
• It was extinguished five hours later, and the house was a total loss, the report says.
  — NBC news, 27 Apr. 2023
• The fire would have been caught in time to be extinguished with the firefighting equipment on board.
  — Vicki Moore, The Mercury News, 16 Jan. 2024
• The fire took about 10 minutes to extinguish, and no one was injured.
  — Mike Danahey, Chicago Tribune, 28 Mar. 2023
• But Alonso struck out on a high, 99-mph fastball from Baz on a 3-2 count to extinguish the threat.
  — Peter Sblendorio, Hartford Courant, 15 June 2025
• Roden said there was a fire in the kitchen and some hot spots in the duct work that firefighters worked to extinguish.
  — Bob Dohr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Oct. 2021
• Trump’s view can be distilled simply: genuine peace only comes when the good guys defeat the bad guys and real threats are extinguished.
  — Jason D. Greenblatt, semafor.com, 18 June 2025
• The carrier, which was headed to a Pacific port in Mexico after leaving China in late May, was abandoned when the crew was unable to extinguish the fire onboard.
  — David Matthews, New York Daily News, 25 June 2025