inextinguishable

Example Sentences

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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

But he and others live with an inextinguishable awareness of the threats to their homes, and to the islands themselves, from sea level rise or the next big storm.

From New York Times • Sep. 6, 2019

In all sports, they lacked his inextinguishable fierceness, his hunger for games.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy