inextinguishable
Example Sentences
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The 35-year-old volunteer firefighter has spent more than a month enveloped in this haze, breathing toxic millennia-old microparticles of carbon as he toils against a seemingly inextinguishable fire front.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
Being at home is a ritual, as religious, in its way, as remembering the Maccabees’ inextinguishable lamp or the exodus from Egypt.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025
"We will always counter blind hatred with the inextinguishable thirst to teach. The thirst to learn. The thirst to live freely".
From Reuters ● Oct. 16, 2023
Two relentless brawlers with iron chins and inextinguishable wills created a classic rivalry.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 16, 2022
An inextinguishable elation gripped the room and the voices of the young aviators were fleshed with bravado.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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