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

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

If purity of spirit can burn away the dross of circumstance, then Maraden's Sonya is a quenchless flame, albeit a small one.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

In my unutterable loneliness, I lost all heart for my studies, and breaking away from école and hospitals, wandered in Italy, seeking to quench a quenchless grief.

From Stories by American Authors, Volume 2 by Various