quenchless

Example Sentences

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Probably Longfellow came closest, noting that lighthouses are “steadfast, serene … a quenchless flame.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 22, 2017

Most people who develop diabetes are overweight, but when the disease begins, they lose weight, develop a voracious appetite, a quenchless thirst.

From Time Magazine Archive

This was Donizetti's 63rd opera, and it is a charmer with a quenchless flow of melody and fun involving the usual op�ra bouffe case of mistaken identity.

From Time Magazine Archive

By this time "the quenchless ambition of an ordered mind" disclosed in Freeman's portrait of the early years has mellowed to massive, benevolent prudence.

From Time Magazine Archive

Once the cup has been raised to my lips; one draught I took of that for which my soul longs with a burning and quenchless thirst.

From Ellen Middleton—A Tale by Fullerton, Georgiana