extinguishable

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for extinguishable
Adjective
  • Graham said the team is there to gather perishable evidence, which will take as many days as needed.
    Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 19 May 2025
  • Multiple perishable foods without date marks were also discovered, with goat cheese, pimento cheese, seared tuna and cut tomatoes holding temperatures above 41 degrees.
    Evan Moore, Charlotte Observer, 30 May 2025
Adjective
  • Those missiles were pointed at Israel, which lived in mortal fear of them.
    Karl Vick, Time, 13 June 2025
  • In Game 3, Ekblad made McDavid look mortal by sending him to the ice with a textbook body check delivered shoulder to shoulder.
    Michael Russo, New York Times, 10 June 2025
Adjective
  • Deliver at All Costs features spectacularly destructible environments, a pleasant soundtrack of easy jazz and surfer music, and a lightly entertaining story about persevering in a tough working environment.
    The New York Times, New York Times, 30 May 2025
  • Everyone, including our simian hero, is obsessed with digging into the fully destructible ground to unearth its precious metals and gems.
    Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 23 May 2025
Adjective
  • The notion that rival great powers should come together to manage a chaotic international system is one that leaders have embraced at many points in history, often in the wake of catastrophic wars that left them seeking to establish a more controlled, reliable, and resilient order.
    Stacie E. Goddard, Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2025
  • The surgeon is basically trying to make a very controlled and aesthetic scar—after all, a belly button is just an umbilical scar.
    Meirav Devash, Allure, 31 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Compared to an initial version of the budgets presented to City Council members in May, the ones that were adopted include an additional $194,000 and $160,000 in transient occupancy tax revenue for 2026 and 2027, respectively.
    Luke Harold, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 June 2025
  • What explosive and transient events occur in the universe?
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 20 June 2025
Adjective
  • Lemon The little black dress of garnishes, at once flirty and restrained.
    Amiel Stanek, Bon Appetit Magazine, 16 June 2025
  • With two monochrome takes on intricate guilloché work the new dial designs come across as more restrained, even with baguette-cut indices.
    Thor Svaboe, Robb Report, 13 June 2025
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“Extinguishable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/extinguishable. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.

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