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The unexploded ordnance, some of which was heard going off during the dayslong effort to quench the fire, made it harder for firefighters to get close to the blaze.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

"It's mainly to quench our thirst, and we have to give our animals water too," Andras, a student, told AFP.

From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026

The LAFD, she said, didn’t have enough firefighters, based at enough fire stations, to quench the wind-driven flames that were tearing through the hills.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2025

The duke was sent to Germany to cool his ardour, but the imposed distance failed to quench the flame.

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2025

He was headed for the kitchen, where he would open the refrigerator and swallow a quart of milk to quench his football-practice thirst.

From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee

But quenches -- the sudden, destructive events wherein a part of the material loses superconductivity -- are a major barrier to their deployment.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 11, 2024

Listening to KGAY, he added, quenches “a desire for a sense of connection that was in person, that was live and public.”

From New York Times ● Feb. 7, 2024

There is, legitimately, no item on earth that quenches and refreshes like good ol' water — especially when you've eaten something especially heavy or you've accidentally eaten the equivalent of your body weight in candy.

From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2023

The river, which cascades from the Rockies down to the deserts of the Southwest, quenches the thirst of 40 million people in the U.S. and Mexico and sustains a $15 billion-a-year agricultural industry.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 18, 2022

The world of that time had seen many persons die as calmly as a funeral pile quenches when the fuel in it is consumed.

From Hania by Henryk Sienkiewicz

I sipped on this drink during a midday walk and it kept me cool, quenched and satisfied.

From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2025

They quenched their thirst by drinking contaminated water from a nearby well.

From BBC ● Jan. 21, 2025

At this point near Gennadi village, its climate change-fueled fury was only quenched by the sea.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 5, 2023

Where temperatures never breached freezing, where less than half of sea-level oxygen quenched lungs, where gale-force winds scoured the hardscrabble rocks littering the peaks.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2023

His staff, black yew-wood, all radiance quenched, was grasped in his right hand, and he would not let go of it.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin

It manufactures neodymium magnets by pouring liquid alloy onto a rotating, cooled disk, then rapidly quenching and pulverizing it to freeze the delicate crystalline structure at a microscopic scale before it can grow.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026

The primary solution to resolve this crisis would’ve been to pump a neutralizing agent into the problem tank, quenching it and making it no longer explosive.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2026

They are used to quenching their thirst with snow, but with little or no snowfall, they can easily get dehydrated.

From Barron's ● Feb. 10, 2026

"The key to the quenching mechanism lies in how quickly and efficiently the triplet states can be deactivated," said Alessandro Agostini, researcher at the University of Padua, Italy and co-lead author of the study.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2025

So I curse the perfect beach, and the cool, quenching drink that I can feel in my hand, but can never, ever raise to my lips.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman