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

In its quenchless vitality, it drinks up the golden decades like nectar at the banquet table of life.

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

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