quench
Example Sentences
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I too had done horrible things to quench my self-loathing.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 23, 2026
Consumer tastes have changed dramatically since Coke’s heyday, and Vita Coco has responded with a product mix that should quench investors’ thirst for growth and reasonable value.
From Barron's • Nov. 13, 2025
On the other hand, they wrote, allowing potentially defective drugs to be widely used is akin to "drinking poison to quench thirst".
From BBC • Feb. 11, 2025
Through fingerlike projections that descend upon the uterine wall, it attempts to quench the embryo’s appetite for maternal blood.
From Slate • Sep. 7, 2024
It was like drinking glass after glass of water and still emerging thirsty, and with the stirring fear that he would never quench the thirst.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Vocabulary lists containing quench
Where the Red Fern Grows
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"There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury (1950)
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40 SAT words Beginning with "Q"
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