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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

“For a lot of people, a beverage is just to quench the thirst or get an energy boost with caffeine, so yeah maybe the tea behind it isn’t really that important for them.”

From Salon ● Jul. 31, 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

He dropped it into the stone cooling pool in the forge to quench it.

From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman

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

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

Foremilk quenches the infant’s thirst, whereas hindmilk satisfies the infant’s appetite.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013

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

However, the attacks quickly quenched out before any scar tissue could form.

From Science Daily ● May 22, 2024

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

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 5, 2023

It often seemed near—the heavenly world—but never had he quite reached it, never had he quenched the final thirst.

From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse

Yet scientists are discovering that this everyday drink may be doing far more in the body than quenching thirst.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 13, 2026

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

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